Normalization
Now that you are finished with repairs, it is time to normalize the volume for the whole album. If you copied everything to a single Audacity track, select the entire track and apply Effect > Normalize. This won’t affect the dynamic range or change audio quality; all it does is raise the overall volume level. Set your maximum amplitude no higher than 0.0, which is the maximum for digital audio, and make sure that “Remove any DC offset” is checked. DC offset refers to the mean amplitude. If this is not zero, then normalization won’t be applied correctly because the amplitude levels will be unbalanced, and it might even create a bit of distortion. When this is finished, you’re ready to go on to the next section.
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