a good program for music editing?

Any audio editing or recording app can seem complicated to a beginner.

Audacity is a good one. Try it first.

You could also try Mixcraft. It's not too expensive.

If a song is recorded with lack of clarity or contains distortion there is not too much you can do about it.

The input = the output.

No program will help much in this respect.

Excessive bass can be reduced with the graphic equalizer function.

Bitrate refers to the quality (or size) of the file, not the volume.

The higher the bitrate the better the quality.

To adjust the volume level in Audacity you need to use the "amplify" function via the effects menu. It is also known as "normalizing"

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

http://www.acoustica.com/mixcraft/ (has free trial)

In my journey, i'm an amatuer recording artist, Audacity has worked wonders. It has over a hundred distinctive purposes, you could delete issues out, upload issues in, velocity up, decelerate, edit out noise, enhance or decrase pitch, or maybe overlap distinctive areas of the track actual. That better area? it is freeware.

might be a little more professional then what your looking for, but Adobe Audition is AWESOME.

For what you're talking about it's pretty simple, but you can do more fun things like making the White Stripes sound like Alvin & the Chipmunks

I use Nero for any song/sound editing.

Try audacity at http://audacity.sourceforge.net./