Audacity Forum

I hope Im explaining it properly. Maybe not. There are two tools associated with custom volume increase. Compression changes more or less all the waves increasing the low ones and suppressing the louder ones. Limiter is the other one. That one you can pick which of the loud peaks "wake up" the tool...

Thanks for the info, but Ive already run the compressor. I feel like there must be a way to do this, I hope Im explaining it properly. Basically I want to keep the same loudness, but shrink the waveform vertically, to basically rescale the gain so that I can reapply amplify and get the levels up muc...

I have an audio clip that, even when normalized to -1 dB, is still soft. How can I basically squish the waveform down to allow more room to add gain to bring the levels up to an acceptable point? I swear I've done this before, I just cant remember how!