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Originally Posted by sikamikanico83

are these settings okay? another thing I realized and completely forgot about is the pre-gap, usually 2 sec on the first track of the disc, is EAC able to remove it somehow if yes where can i enable it. it's important for the 2CD shows as I will always have to remove the 2sec gap of the frist track of cd#2 to get proper track transitions finally. it would be a pain in the butt to to do it manually but if i've got no other choise...

The first track on a cd always has a two second (or longer) pregap, it's called standard lead-in or something and there is no reason to mess with it. You do not have to worry about peak levels, they've got nothing to do with the extraction. You should also consider disabling C2 error correction and correcting the read offset. Some people also say that it is better to install an external aspi interface than to use the native windows interface.