Thanks for your reply, Si Boogie.
I’m still getting my head around a lot of audio set-up stuff (it’s a whole new world of learning). Can you explain what you mean by setting the master gain correctly? I have some songs that are high rate rips but the volume is still a little low compared to some of my tracks. I did, however, just read an article about using the auto gain function in TP2. I have yet to check this out, maybe it will help when recording.
Also, just since you mentioned, can you give me a quick example of how you use audacity to remove clips from recorded audio?