On Tue, 10 Nov 2020 08:42:28 -0700 Paul Davis wrote: > On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 6:17 AM John Murphy <rosegardener@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > > > > Normalisation loses nothing, but better utilises the available bit depth. > > > > This is a bit misleading. The signal was recorded using whatever range was > present at the time of recording. Normalisation cannot "improve" anything, > but it does mean that the peak level is at or very close to 0 dBFS, which > for many purposes (though definitely not all) is preferable. You're right, of course. I suppose all it does is move the unused part of the dynamic range from above the peak level to below the quietest level. > You would rarely want to normalize to 0dBFS before using an audio recording > in a mix, for example (except that sometimes you would :) Exceptions are good. 'Normalize' doesn't sound like something one would want to do to music, but it's certainly useful to make compilations from different sources easier to listen to. -- John. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
