That's because small variances in the recording from DAT machine to DAT machine can add a few milliseconds of difference every few minutes. So I had to re-sync the two recordings for every song and then combine the two recordings into one. That works out to about 20 re-syncs over the course of the entire show. Cutting the CD Then, after I had twenty single files corresponding to each song, I again fired up Sound Forge. Then I used a peak limiter to bring the overall volume of each song up as high as it could go.
Most live recordings are full of very high peaks, and very quiet valleys.
After tweaking the controls just right, I applied them to all 20 songs. That's not as arduous as it might sound as Sound Forge has a batch capability that let it run overnight, applying those changes automatically. A few fades in and out, and I was done. Now it was time to make the covers. The cover art comes from a friend, Brian Delacey, who is a painter and also a fan of the band.