Thanks to Kuong and Sean. I have listened to the podcast with interest and got some useful tips when recording from a microphone. My question now is what about when recording from an external device? Is there a way using the play/record meetre, or the slider in/outputs to make it so that all recordings play at the same level? For readers' interest, I found the podcast on Blindtechsupport much more informative for blind audacity users. Why? It used keystrokes when giving examples. Many thanks. Ron