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I'm guessing that you mean "perceived loudness" rather than actual loudness - many commercial recordings are engaged in a loudness war to make the CDs and on;ine recourdings to "sound" loud. If this is the case than you need to use a compressor - Audacity has one of these, the be...

Why do you need to use SAR for recording vinyl? I don't follow

WC

For a start do yourself a big favour and upgrade to the latest Audacity 1.3.14, whivh you can get from here: http://audacityteam.org/download/ 1.2 is now ancient and has not been updated or maintained for years. And have a work through of this set of tutorials from the 1.3 manual: http://manual.auda...

This thread grew from, and intertwined with, a simpler feature request thrad started by Koz reagarding the L&R labelling of the channels of a stereo pair: "Waveform display: Minor Graphic Change". I have turned that FR into a full proposal on the Wiki (and extended that proposal to inc...

By "older" Koz means Audacity 1.3.13 and all ealier Audacity versions.

Normalize was changed (for the better) in the recent 1.3.14 release - see the documentation for the latest version: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Normalize

WC

Well those tutorials I pointed you at earlier contain most of what I know about LP & tape digital conversion :geek: Ok so let's look at your 1.3 Device Toolbar - see: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Device_Toolbar 1) On that your input device should be the USB tape device (it may show up in t...

This tutorial from the 1.3 manualshould help you: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Tuto ... e_computer

WC

... my music is not playing back when I try listening to it. I am using the Audacity 1.2.6 and I see a wave when the music is being recorded. This is because XP thinks that when you plug a USB sound device like this that you want both the input and out sound services to be directed to your USB devi...

I can't find an online manual for this device on t'interweb - and only very cursory technical specs. - but it looks like a basic low-end USB tape device, so the instructions in the tutorials I listed above should be fine to get you going.

WC

How high are the blue waveforms in the Audacity display? You only need to get then to around 50% to achieve a good recording level - see this page in the manual: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Audacity_Waveform 50% waveform corresponds to a maximum of around -6 dB on the meters. Provided you hav...