As I was going to bed last night I remembered from the Sound Forge forum that I was reading a few years agothat a lot of Sound Forge users will record on that program, make use of it's great features, in this case, recording at higher levels and then using another program that is easier to work with on the remaining things.

So, in this case, it seems to me that I will do exactly that. Record in SF at the high rate, bring back down to 16 bits and then use my very easy to use Magix Audio Cleaning Lab to do the normalizing, which is just a way to set all volumes for each tune so that they have a consitent volume from one to the next and to prevent clipping. Then I'll do an ear test and if anything needs a volume tweak, I will adust from there.

I know all my original recordings with Magix were very well normalized, so that's what I'm going to do.

I also know that any other editing of recorded music is best done at the higher levels as it destroys less of the original recording. Things like EQ, removing noise, clicks, crackle etc.

In this case it appears that no extra editing will be needed except for possibly an occasional EQ tweak.

So, that's my fix on it this morning.

Any other ideas welcome.

Best
Scott