[shawlie]

A lady I know sings with me sometimes and wants to play out more often. We did it a couple times, got nice reactions and plan on doing it a lot more.

We'd also like to record some stuff for on a cd - nothing very fancy, just to give out here and there and maybe sell cheap if we play. It's all home-made stuff, on a Zoom2 (but am taking steps to make the room better for recording, to get the most out of what we have to use). It's a hobby and we have a lot of fun so far.

I was wondering about something that's always given me problems - everytime I try and record something it sounds ok on computer at a (fairly) normal volume. If I burn it to cd, I often have to turn up the volume quite a bit and think I must be doing something wrong. A song may peak at -6db on my computer, and I on cd I have to turn the volume up several notches more than a normal cd.

Is this just because I use more or less cheap stuff, or can I get the level higher without making the peak level higher?