After doing a first normalise, you are now about to apply a number of processes to the audio file, depending on the state of the record.  The track I have just recorded has light crackling with one major pop.

First we need to trim the ends of the song.  I personally don't like cold cutting.  This often leaves pops on burned discs for some kind of unknown reason.  Instead I will be applying a number of fades.  This also makes the finished compilation sound cleaner and tidier, and later on allows for much better mixing techniques, when joining two sides of a record together into one session.  This is the final step when burning a CD in CD Architect 5.0.

Take note of where the red ring is located on the above screen shot on the right.  This area contains both the wave zoom in and wave zoom out functions.  Below the zooming functions is the selection clock.  This shows how much of the wave you have selected in minutes, seconds and milliseconds.  Much of the fading functions you're about to do will be measured in milliseconds.  We'll also be working backwards, as this makes calculating the fading periods much simpler. 

(Figure 1)  To start this process, click around the start of the track (1).  Then by clicking on the zoom tool (2), zoom in to 1-64 magnification.  You'll notice that you may have placed the selector line slightly to far in, or out of the intro of the song. (3)  Move the selector to the start of the track. (4)

(Figure 2)  At this point (1), hold down your left mouse button and drag into the direction of the arrows, until you have around 200 milliseconds in the selection clock, (2) then let go. (3)  Now go to the process menu and select fade, and then on the fade sub-menu click "in".  You have now just created a fade in.  You have just placed a 200 milliseconds fade in, before the start of the track.