Doing some from CDex, EAC, and Razorlame, the volume always seems to
increase from a WAV file that is max'ed but no clipping shows in SoundForge.
Once ripped, the Mp3's all seem to clip and increase in volume when checked
in SoundForge 7.

What I've been doing is reducing the volume of the WAV to around -1.03db
(sometimes another -0.9db a few times more) in S.F. and then ripping to Mp3
it using S.F. So far clipping is gone doing it that way but using the other
software mentioned above that depend on LAME 3.96 seem to increase volume
until clipping occurs. Decreasing their volume just brings the flat-tops
(clips) down but now the Mp3 are distorted as well.

It's a pain to manually decrease volume of the WAV and rip each separately
in S.F. Any other better (i.e. faster) way to avoid "Increased volume and
clipping" of ripped files?

B~