Audacity Forum

I am digitizing live music from cassette tapes. My source is coming from a Soundcraft Notepad (no compressor option) going to a Toshiba Satellite laptop computer (E205-S1904). I am noticing that on the playback, the music is highly compressed and it sounds obvious the processing is set high. I would...

After I master and set my music levels at maximum in Audacity making sure that my recording levels are not distorting and after I export my tracks to a mp3 file and then use movie maker to produce a mp4, I find that when after I upload them to Youtube the sound levels are too soft. How can I increas...