Or, you may find that one channel is less noisy than the other, so you can keep the best side and throw-away the other. It’s usually better to record in stereo because of noise… The noise is random and uncorrelated in the left & right channels but the signal is perfectly correlated so if you record in stereo and later combine the left & right channels to make mono you are improving the signal-to-noise ratio. If the record is “Mono”, do I have to change the recording channel from “Stereo” to “Mono” in order to record it?.…And, you loose dynamic range (and you get distortion) if you are clipping. “Technically” you loose dynamic range at lower levels, but 16-bits has far more dynamic range than vinyl (or any analog source) so it’s not an issue. Then of course, pb]you can boost the levels after recording with the Audacity Amplify effect. If you are recording “live”, the peaks are more unpredictable and pros typically record at -12 to -18dB. Records are somewhat consistent/predictable so around 6dB of headroom is usually plenty. Nothing bad happens when you get close to 0dB but it’s usually best to “shoot for” around -6dB to allow for unexpected peaks. With digital recording the recording level is not critical* as long as you avoid clipping which happens at 0dB. It’s not the “setting”, it’s the result which depends on the analog signal and the sensitivity of the analog-to-digital converter. If I put the “Recording Volume” at a low level like 0.03, will it improve dynamic range?.
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