Sound Recorded Too Low

Hoping someone can help!
On my recent shoot, the recording volume settings were too low (I think) and after capturing to FCP the average reading is around -50 and peaking at -12.
Even upping the sound bar by the max 12dB isn't enough really to repair it. I'm a pretty basic user of FCP so don't know a lot of the technical stuff. I have Soundtrack Pro and don't know if that can help me as I don't know how to use it.
Any help would be hugely appreciated folks as stand to lose an awful lot of material..
Thanks!

The quick solution is to double your audio tracks
The quickest way to do that is to hold down the Option key while dragging the audio clip to a new track ... before releasing the clip, press the Shift key (while still holding down the Option key). This will create a duplicate clip in perfect sync with the original clip.
You can also use the Dynamic Processor filter to add more gain.
-DH

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