How important is it to have the level meter peaking at zero?

[kozikowski]

The noise arrives as crunchy bass notes or drums. They are the loudest parts of a music performance.

<<<That's -60 dB, perhaps the person got angry on me.>>>

The person doesn't have to be angry. People are accustomed to a very noisy environment all the time now and everybody is partially deaf, but I grew up on a large farm in a forested area of New York State. I could talk to someone in the garden and still be able to hear the table radio on the porch of the next farmhouse a half mile away. Their porch didn't face me, either.

The rest of the valley noise floor was also in the -60s.

It may still be.

Koz

[hp1]

Thanks for the tips on using Normalize and Amplify, i'll check them out.