Apologies if this is considered off topic and if the description of the
problem is very non techy. I have a number of minidiscs I wish to copy to
CDR to listen to in the car.

I'm trying to use Audacity to record to wav, I've hooked a MD deck up to my
PC and the sound is great while the MD plays - however when I listen to the
wav created it is distorted at the loudest points. The recording level
seems too high, if I use volume control on the line in it seems to have no
differece while if I change the input volume within Audacity it records
everything at lower volume but with the same crashing at louder points.

Any tips on how I can record at lower levels ? thanks for any help