[Gwc-general] Amplify function erratic

[John C. <ci...@pu...>]

I frequently need to use the Amplify function to bring up
the level of one or both channels.
Some of the time, only one channel will amplify (usually the
left channel) even though I specified both.
Or even if I specified only right channel amplification, it
goes through the motions, says it's done, yet no
amplification was performed.
I thought at  first maybe I was trying to specify an
out-of-bounds amount, but that's not it.
It could say that the max available is 2.8, and I want to go
from 1.0 to 1.2 or something like that.
Either one or both channels fail to amplify. Yet, if I try
to perform the operation 2 or 3 times, it finally amplifies.
If I deliberately highlight the entire right channel
waveform and specify amplification on that channel, the odds
are better but still not always.
I can't remember when I first started noticing this or
whether it was always there to some degree.
At this moment I have GWC 0.19-7 and 0.20-07 both installed.
  I like the features of 0.20 but sometimes use 0.19-7 if
0.20 seems squirrely.  Both of them have this erratic
amplification behavior.
I did have the newer 0.20-10 but it was a little too
unstable on this system.  I currently am running Debian
Sarge, kernel 2.4.27-2-386 with an AMD Duron if that helps.
KDE 3.3 environment.
Is this a GWC issue, or could it be something wrong
elsewhere?  It's starting to drive me batty as I'm using GWC
more and more.

Any suggestions appreciated.

John Cirillo