Normalising?

Normalising?

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Posted by D Prowse on October 16, 2001 at 12:36:28:

Normalizing is absolutely NOT what is as described here! What you have desribed is a form of audio COMPRESSION. Be careful. Do the research! Read Cakewalk Power for chrissake! Normalizing checks for the loudest sound ONLY and then will increase the overall volume of the WHOLE wav file OR MP3 file so that the old loudest volume will be dynamically as loud as possible within the constrains of 16bit, 44.1000Khz with all of the rest if the dynamics of the wav file intact as to there relationship to the loudest sound. The whole wav file will increase in volume to that range as guided by the LOUDEST sound. This is fact. This is the CORRECT definition of Normalizing. PERIOD. Also, something to consider when normalizing, that if there is any residual or mechanical/analog noise present in the unnaffected/prenormalized wav file, is after noralization, the NOISE will increase right along with all of the SOUNDS that you want!

In other words, if your loudest sound could be made 15 decibels louder, and you choose 100% normalization, then your NOISE will increase by 15db AS WELL! So , think about that. Anyone who has normalized a crappy sounding file KNOWS this to be true. Use your ears when normalizing - try different percentages of normailizing.

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: Normalizing is absolutely NOT what is as described here! What you have desribed is a form of audio COMPRESSION. Be careful. Do the research! Read Cakewalk Power for chrissake! Normalizing checks for the loudest sound ONLY and then will increase the overall volume of the WHOLE wav file OR MP3 file so that the old loudest volume will be dynamically as loud as possible within the constrains of 16bit, 44.1000Khz with all of the rest if the dynamics of the wav file intact as to there relationship to the loudest sound. The whole wav file will increase in volume to that range as guided by the LOUDEST sound. This is fact. This is the CORRECT definition of Normalizing. PERIOD. Also, something to consider when normalizing, that if there is any residual or mechanical/analog noise present in the unnaffected/prenormalized wav file, is after noralization, the NOISE will increase right along with all of the SOUNDS that you want! : In other words, if your loudest sound could be made 15 decibels louder, and you choose 100% normalization, then your NOISE will increase by 15db AS WELL! So , think about that. Anyone who has normalized a crappy sounding file KNOWS this to be true. Use your ears when normalizing - try different percentages of normailizing.

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