I wanted to offer some tips on how to mix an audio recording. I've heard a lot of great music here on Newgrounds, and I love how creative it is. You can make it sound even better when the song is mixed well.

A lot of times, when you're new to audio recording, you won't always know how loud the levels should be. In analog recording, if your sound levels are too high, that's not actually a bad thing, depending on the sound you want to create. If you want to have a distortion effect - think Jimi Hendrix or Nirvana's style of music - then you can create that through overloading the sound levels with analog recordings. But this kind of natural distortion is harder to replicate with digital recording.

If you want to replicate distortion in a digital recording, you have to be careful. If your sound levels are too loud, the volume can cause clipping. Clipping happens when a waveform is too loud, so it reaches its peak when it hits the top of the audio track bars (if you're using a visual audio recorder like Audacity or Wavosaur, you can tell when it clips). Once the sound is too loud, you lose digital information, which affects the quality of your recording. So you can imagine clipping as reaching the limit of your digital wavelength - once you hit that limit, you lose sound information.

If the clipping is really severe, you will hear an audible "clip!" kind of sound. If the clipping is minor, it's possible to repair the audio by either making the clipped part quieter (using a limiter to reduce the volume can help with this), re-recording the section that clipped, or using a "clipping remover" software. If there's too much clipping, sometimes you just have to start over and record a new track at a quieter volume.

In some genres, though, clipping is desired as part of the music's sound. If that's the case, keep the clipping in!

I hope these tips are helpful!