12 Apr
2004
12 Apr
'04
6:53 p.m.
On Sun, 2004-04-11 at 22:43, Mark Knecht wrote:
On Sun, 2004-04-11 at 19:03, R Parker wrote:
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
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?