Volume Drops After Trimming and Exporting Audio File

Hi, I’m encountering an issue with Audacity that I hope someone can help with.

I start with an audio file that sounds perfectly fine and has a good volume level. However, after I trim a few seconds (removing some unneeded parts) and export the edited file (WAV), the exported audio sounds noticeably quieter than the original.

I haven’t applied any effects or changes other than trimming — no normalization, compression, or gain adjustment. I’m simply cutting and exporting, yet the output volume drops significantly.

Has anyone else experienced this? Is there a setting or export option I might be missing that causes this volume drop?

Thanks in advance for your help!


This post is just an observation by me for the experts in the forum to evaluate. It is not meant to be an answer to the question.

I noticed that the saved wave file is converted from the native 32-bit float of the editing environment to 24-bit PCM. Could that have anything to do with the change in volume?

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