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This article from the 1.3 manual explains a bit about the Audacity waveform: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Audacity_Waveform

WC

And a much improved version of the Normalize effect. In all versions of Audacity 1.3.13 and previous Audacity's normalize effect works in a manner not common in most other audio software, in that its amplification operates on each channel of a stereo pair independently. Now while this is useful if y...

Oh, and I prefer to control the signal level from the hardware gain control on my phono pre-amp

WC

I used to always set it so that the recording bar was almost hitting the distortion level but not over. Now I am recording on a windows 7 machine with the same set up and with the 1.3.x(Beta) version. I have the input levels set to max and the meter bar barely gets to the max recording level. Setti...

If you only have a Mic input then you may well be a candidate for one of the external USB soundcards that we know work well with Audacity - see this sticky thread: http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=9477

WC

Wow, that's insightful and interesting Gale - this is me writing that down.

Thanks, WC

Ahhhh... but your test is only working with Audacity generated sound - it's not looking at a recording chain or an on-board soundcard.

WC

steve wrote:Experimentation.
Do you want details?

No, not necessary.

I just wanted to be sure of my ground - I don't want to embarrass myself in front of the devs by claiming something that isn't so

I think you're right. It looks like Noise Removal uses the same profile for both channels and that profile is created from an average of left and right channels. Steve do you base this on: 1) looking at the code, 2) experimentation, 3) hunch. "hunch"is where I personally was coming from :...

Transferred the actual Feature Request to Pending Feature requests page on the Wiki.

Retained this page on the forum under Audio Processing as Steve's work-around could be useful to other readers.

WC