In audacity, to edit only one of the two tracks in a stereo file, click Track Title > Split Stereo

Track. Then you can

select, edit, and change the volume of each "ear" separately. Regarding the level of your recordings, its actually
pretty decent. If you want to make sure they are as loud as possible without distorting, go to Effect >
Compressor, the turn the threshold all the way to -1dB (all the way up), and make sure "Normalize to 0dB after
compressing" is checked. This will put the peak amplitude of your entire song at 0dB.