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Clipping

I'm going to archive all my older tapes and disks. The tape recorder is connected to the soundcard's line-in and I use Audiograbber.

Audiograbber shows the signal level from 0 to 100% using a bar graph.

Do I get clipping if the signal goes up to 100% ?
Is it a good idea to record at a lower level (e.g. 80%) to avoid clipping and then "normalize" the wav file ?

Or if I record a disk with 95% and some Clicks exceed 100%, does that cause clipping noise in the wav or later the mp3 files ?

Clipping

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Is it a good idea to record at a lower level (e.g. 80%) to avoid clipping
yes, check if the actual peakmeter values reported are correct with some other software.
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and then "normalize" the wav file ?
no, just encode the file as it is and then use replaygain on the allready encoded file. (at least thats what i would do...)
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