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Are additional losses incurred when using Amplify?

I just tried Steve's suggestion of comparing the pre and post click removed tracks from an old Glenn Miller LP. The difference channel was predominantly flat (as expected) but there were areas with large differences. When listening to these sections of pre and post click removal there was a very not...

Now that I have a bit more experience there is one last question concerning click removal. I have been manually locating clicks, selecting a 0.1sec window around each click to minimize collatoral damage to the surrounding audio and then removing the clicks. This has worked well but is very time-cons...

What does reversing the data stream do that helps click removal? I expanded around several clicks and some have sharp leading edges and some have sharp trailing edges. Does anyone have any thoughts about my other questions? Is click removal a high-pass filter or does it specifically look for short p...

Is the Click Removal effect a sharp-cornered high-pass filter that eliminates all sharp edges? If so, it might roll off the fast rising edges of everything (such as cymbal crashes) so maybe it would be best to manually select a window around each click before using Click Removal. Or does it specific...

I became more acutely aware of this during my LP transfers as I find myself adjusting the gain on my little phono pre-amp for almost every record I record in to Audacity to keep a target -6 dB peak. That may not be due to the variation between the LP recording levels. It may be because some origina...

Yes if the entire LP is quite - but no if it has loud parts. That makes more sense than the generally stated "normalize everything." There is no "standard loudness level" fo LPs - and they do vary I was unaware of that. Are most standardized and some are not or do they all vary? It seems when liste...

Thank you for the quick reply. I am doing all that you suggested. But if I record a quiet LP and then use Normalize will it not become louder with a volume similar to a loud LP?

Is there a way to set the Input Volume more precisely than moving the slider? Maybe set it with a digital value somewhere?

I am digitizing LPs and question whether I should use Normalize. I understand that Normalize can amplify the entire recording without clipping. But is that what we want? For example, if one recording is very loud on the original LP (let's say heavy rock) and a second recording is very quiet on the L...