Malcolm Baldridge writes: That turned out to be sort of what was going on. I noticed the reduced audio on both the up-sampling script and a script that did no sample conversion but was supposed to send one mono feed to two stereo channels. I tried the -e -stat function and it showed a gain factor of 1.0 in the mono to stereo script. I stuck a gain conversion of 2 in the output and my level came right up to where it should be except for lots of clipping. After another look at the manual, I found that I had overlooked the avg settings. These settings control how much audio is sent to each channel. sox invokes this function but with defaults if you don't set it and I had not. Apparently, the default is to send half the audio to each channel. avg 1,1 did the trick and my stereo from mono recording is now as loud as the original mono .wav without clipping. That script I included that produces a stereo 44100 .wav out of 8000-HZ PCM probably also needs the avg settings adjusted. I just didn't realize that I had lost some level at the time. My thanks for answers that got me pointed in the right direction. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK OSU Information Technology Division Network Operations Group