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Title: Audacity "mastering" settings [newb]
Post by: shrems on February 10, 2008, 09:22:37 AM

Hey y'all,
Last night I recorded my favorite bands with an a-t ATR20 (I know it's schwag) > Audacity on my laptop PC, raw mono.  I got a 40% signal using just my sound card pre-amp, sometimes spiking almost to 50%.  Obviously this recording needs gain before I post it...I have to turn my amp up all the way to enjoy the way it is.

How do I know how much gain?
Are there other Audacity settings I should know about?

Is this correct/sufficient lineage-- "ATR20>Laptop Integrated Soundcard>Audacity>WAV>FLAC"?  (I have already exported to WAV, and I will apply gain to the WAVs, is this bad?)

Thanks.

moeshroom

Title: Re: Audacity "mastering" settings [newb]
Post by: calvinroots on February 10, 2008, 10:22:36 AM

Highlight the whole recording, go to effects, "Amplify" and then choose how much...I usually go to -1.0 db

hope that helped ya

Title: Re: Audacity "mastering" settings [newb]
Post by: shrems on February 10, 2008, 10:25:25 AM

Thank you bro.

Title: Re: Audacity "mastering" settings [newb]
Post by: calvinroots on February 11, 2008, 08:53:19 AM

not a problem my friend