Originally Posted by
mitchiemasha
I'm detecting a little miss understanding here. Your complaint is "weak recording" low overall volume. This is already High Quality, it just needs level boosting. It wouldn't make the Tascam useless, that's what you're using to record. Putting the recording in to Audacity or a DAW wouldn't increase the "Quality". The quality will always be at the standard it is or less, it would however be made louder.
Due to the very nature of mixing and the summing of 2 audio tracks (lots of much higher peaks regardless to your use of EQ and gain control), even if normalising to 100%, the main part of the audio will still be much lower, weak. Perceived volume and peak volume are 2 different things. If you did manage to mix and keep the peak levels the same in the mix as not in the mix, the perceived volume during the mix would drop considerable. It's all due to the phase relationships of the 2 frequency. Without limiting and dynamic compression with things like iZotope Ozone, it's impossible. Even recording via a hardware compressor doesn't work, they're not fast enough and you'll get tinier peaks slipping through, these are often inaudible but eat up headroom, clip converters, amps etc...
There is a SECRET though, a trick... Over normalise, say 120%, then normalise to 99.9%. Now you've chopped off those random spikes, that are the result of the exact moment, an exact same frequency, in both tracks, happened to be perfectly in phase. It doesn't have to be 120%, just whatever amount gets the songs up to 0db, without the transitions sounding bad. That was the quick way of dealing with a random pop back in the vinyl days, the pop wouldn't let the normalisation, maximise the recording to the desired amount, as it would be the highest peak.
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