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> Thx Eric, Here is the problem we are recording a church
> sermon. Immeditely after the church service we are
> putting the sermon on a CD with other prerecord which
> have a somewhat standard volume. So we do not have time
> to tweek it too much.

What is a "prerecord"?  Do you mean "prerecorded material"?

> The big problem is that the sermon volume recorded is
> very low so clipping is not an issue at all.

Why not simply set up your recording facility so that the
sermon is recorded louder?

For example, we make a CD of our entire service off of the
main console outputs. When we set the gain on the pastor's
mic in the room, that is reflected in our recording.

Or are you saying that you record the whole service and the
sermon is naturally recorded at a lower level than say, the
songs?

This is not necessarily a serious problem because loudness
is perceived differently for music and speech.

> What I really want is to select the 4 tracks and QUICKLY
> make them all the same perceived loudness.

Matching perceived loudness is a lot more complex than it
may seem.

>What do I want  normalization?

That doesn't match perceived loudness of different kinds of
audio.

>compression?

That doesn't match perceived loudness of different kinds of
audio, either.

>what should I be reading  about?