Audacity Forum

Thanks very much for your prompt and detailed reply - most helpful. Your comment about perceived loudness is interesting. In order to get what I considered a reasonable volume to listen to, using Amplify with clipping allowed resulted in the distortion during applause. With no clipping allowed, the ...

Using Windows Vista, Audacity 2.1.2 I recorded an audio of a comedian from an old reel to reel tape into Audacity, but the maximum recording levels achievable did not exceed 12. On playing back, the voice was low in volume and 'muffled', and I used Amplify to get it to a reasonable level, but that m...