Tape Audio to CD...too intense...(Hard Q)

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...I've been on this multimedia kick lately, and I've been trying to put some of my old tapes on CD (removing hiss and pop with CoolEdit Pro).

My problem is this: with my current sound card (Monster Sound M300), the level of the incoming audio is about 20% higher than it sould be. Sliding the Line-in audio and master audio doesn't seem to effect the recoring level.

I'm using CoolEdit and I've tried EZCD's SpinDoctor-both record with too much intensity.

Ideas?

[spigidygak]

You can alwasy do this: Under cooledit, highlight the whole audio file. Then *eh I forgot where it is in the menus. . . * there is a "normalize" filter. Do that and that should get your volume level to a more acceptable rate.

[Bires]

...normallizing the waveform kills the music's contrast.

(I have the hiss issue resolved, but thanks anyway chosenfool) :cheers:

Anyway, I still haven't figured out a way to reduce the intensity of the incoming, recorded audio, so the waveform retains the music's highs and lows.

[spigidygak]

What kind of hardware you using to capture the audio? This is stupid. . . but check your volume properties. . . and under mic, and then advanced, then make sure the mic boost gain is not selected. That could be the problem since the mic boosts 20db.