For my expirience, you don't need to select all audio. Just focus at the track where you want to boost up gain, and then press shift+g. ----- Original Message ----- From: Cliff Self To: audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 5:34 AM Subject: [audacity4blind] Gain I'm trying to get my recordings to come out louder. Both the input and output meters are set to 100 percent, as is the microphone setting on the record page of the volume utility, and the 20 DB boost is checked. So I tried to use the gain feature with puzzling results. First I select the whole track, then press shift G to bring up the gain dialog. Using either the edit field or the slider in that box, I'm able to boost the volume. But then if I delete that take and redo it, and try the same procedure it doesn't work. If I exit Audacity and restart it, the gain works fine, but I don't want to have to do that for each take. What am I doing wrong here? Cliff ________________ Dang Manh Cuong HCMC University of Pedagogy: The Psychology and education Mobile: +84 902-572-300 E-mail: dangmanhcuong@xxxxxxxxx Yahoo! ID: manhcuong0312 Skype name: dangmanhcuong facebook: http://facebook.com/dangmanhcuong Blog: http://vi.netlog.com/Cuong_littlecat Website: http://ngoisaodanduong.com http://www.saomaicenter.org Projec-Website: http://dangmanhcuong.googlecode.com