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Originally posted by melon51:[..]
@RUMMY I guess it depends on what you'd like to do/achieve. There's quite a bit of choice in free/paid DAW's. I've worked with Audacity, Garageband (both free) and Ableton Live recently. But that's more for the 'construction' work of putting together mixes I guess. They each have their pros/cons:

- Audacity has great plugin support (and there's a wealth of great plugins out there)
- Garageband is less of an editor of (multi)tracks but has great realtime effect support, which Audacity lacks
- Ableton is very feature-rich but has a learning curve and is more of a dance-production tool I guess.

If you're more interested in audio enhancement or fixing audio then you can look at Izotope. Their Ozone mastering suite is kind of brilliant in fixing sound, but comes at a price-tag. You could do a 10 day trial though and run your back cataloque through it though

What's the kind of stuff you would like to do?

Originally posted by RUMMY:[..]
Hey! Thanks for replying.
I just need something relatively simple that allows me to make smooth “transitions” between various live sources and make subtle audio adjustments, when needed. For example, a while back I made an Elevation tour compilation using two sources: Audio from the Boston DVD and audio from the Slane Castle DVD. I did some editing/overlapping of tracks to make the switch from one track to the next (hopefully) seamless.
Hopefully I am making sense here.

Originally posted by melon51:[..]
Yes makes sense.. Have you tried it in Garageband? If not I'd say Audacity is lightweight and open source and you can do fades or (multritrack) mixes in there without too much hassle. You could normalize the audio to a steady volume and I'd recommend using a few Tokyo Dawn Records VST plugins if you're interested in making parts sound better..