On Tue, 12 Apr 2016 10:04:16 -0400, jonetsu wrote: >I still do not see why I would throw anything at a 'mathematical >function' at this stage of learning. Using a fader manually it's nearly impossible to reach as close as possible 0 dBFS, you at least minimal digitally overdrive, even if it shouldn't be audible, or you stay at <= -0.x dBFS. If you master an album with several tracks, then don't normalize for each track independently, but instead normalize the album including all tracks, this has got no impact to the loudness difference between the tracks and normalization also doesn't add compression. OTOH, regarding the dynamic range and something audible, it doesn't matter if you reach 0 dBFS or e.g. just -3 dBFS. Unlikely this will increase the noise to signal ration or something else in an audible way. Assumed a too silent recorded analog signal gets normalized, the noise floor anyway gets louder, too. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
