>>1193275Sounds good man! The whole idea with setting the level down a ways is just to ensure absolutely nothing will clip/distort the audio. Sometimes a bird will land right next to the recorder and start chirping away. It might distort it, but it might not and then you could have a really cool recording. When you're recording 24-bit you have tons of clean audio resolution to work with so you have plenty of headroom you can use for safety.
As far as editing goes you can do it in Audacity or even Garageband or the like. Depends what kind of edits you want to do, but at the very least you want to top & tail the track (nice clean edits or fade in/out etc) and you want to normalise the audio to get the gain right - in other words if nothing loud happened and your track is peaking at -10dBFS you can bump it up to a healthier levek - generally I go for -3dB for this sort of thing, especially as I put my stuff on youtube and they have an algorithm that fucks with overly loud audio (also, for reference music is generally mastered to -0.3dB or higher, film and video is traditionally around -10dB, but broadcast video has different rules altogether, and in the age when everything is on the innanet and youtube all the accepted standards have gone completely out the window).
You might also want to do a little EQing before everything else - if there's a low rumble going on (wind, vibrations, etc) cutting that out will clean up the audio and also allow you to boost the gain a lot more. Also your windmuff is going to be attenuating a couple dB around 10kHz which probably is no issue (those mics are very bright to begin with) but sometimes you may want a little EQ boost to compensate for that.
I use ProTools and RX for most of my audio production stuff, but basically just RX for field recordings.
