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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?

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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.

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

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

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.