Reducing the level of a CD without any compression.

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Hi guys, new to Audacity, I have a Diana Krall “Turn up the Quiet” CD that’s 10db too loud compared to anything else I have, I have to turn down the digital domain volume control on my dac so much to listen to it that it’s almost at zero and probably “bit strips” the music.
I used Audacity to lower the sound top slider only to -9.9db with >Effect> Amplify >
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mplify> what I would love to know, does this compress the music in anyway???

Cheers George

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No. The Amplify effect does not compress the music. It just scales the amplitude (volume) up or down (in your case, it scales down).

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Thanks Steve, you put my mind at ease. I loathe compression in any form, to me “if you have no quiet you have no loud”, but it’s good for places with high background noise, or those with low level hearing difficuties.

Cheers George