On Sun, 2004-04-11 at 22:43, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sun, 2004-04-11 at 19:03, R Parker wrote: > > > > > My first step, which doesn't effect sound if it's > > > done right, was to > > > simply normalize the tracks up a bit. (I told the > > > normalizer to make the > > > highest peak -1db) > > > > I've never normalized a track. Can normalization hold > > a -0.5db peak to -0.5 while it pushes a -12db valley > > up to -6db? > > No, normalization only scales the data points so that relative amplitude > is maintained. The WHOLE file is scaled so that -3db becomes -1db, -6db > becomes -5db, -9db becomes -7db, etc. This does raise the overall volume > by 2db, but it won't normally get you all that much volume if there are > a lot of dynamics in the file or else you'll clip those peaks. That's "peak" normalization. There is also "RMS" normalization which doesn't scale everything equally. Jan
