I agree! Except sometimes you have to. When I make an MP3 file to put on my
site, I know that lots of listeners can't adjust their replay level.
And the the MP3 conversion I use seem to work best when peak level is -6db,
don't know why.
Otherwise I think you are right.
But I would still like to get a definite answer: How much damage is there,
for example when normalizing? It feels wrong, not even knowing. =
Klas.
At 11:52 2003-06-24 -0700, you wrote:
>Klas, you wrote,
>
>>I long for some real digitfreak to give me a list, like 1/ First do
>>filtering, 2/ then dynamic work, 3/ then noise gates, 4/ finally
>>normalizing. Just very practical and straightforward rules! And teaching =
me
>>the errors with doing in another way.
>>
>>I know people who normalize between each step, say, all 10 steps. It appe=
ars
>>to me to be a dangerous way, but they claim it's okay.
>
>I have an opinion on that: never normalize. Never. No need for it. At
>the last stage of CD mastering, overall levels might be raised so the
>loudest sounds are close to max or limited close to max, but that's
>as far as you want to go. In intermediate steps, you need headroom
>for processing.
>
>Also, sounds that are naturally low-level, like ambiences, should not
>be boosted up just so people have to turn them down to listen to
>them. At the NSS workshop someone asked me about ambiences with peaks
>reading at -20 or -30 dBFS, should they be normalized. No!
>
>-Dan Dugan
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