Originally Posted by kaboombahchuck
So what exactly is normalizing for?
Personally I use it to bring all tracks up to the same level so mixing is more uniform... in other words, I like all tracks at their "peak" before mixing down to the rough master. Once mixed, I move on to the mastering phase.
Is this not a good idea?
Why?


Main thing is that normalizing does not treat all material the same. All it does is raise the file level to 0 for whatever is the highest peak in that file. Thus if you have a spike where it's only a db away from zero, then it will only raise the volume 1 db. If you have something really low level and normalize it could bring it up like 25 db and of course all the noise right along with it. I wouldn't recommend using normalize, but that's just me - I don't use it because there are better tools for good recording.

Jody

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