12 Apr
2016
12 Apr
'16
12:11 p.m.
On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 4:58 AM, Thorsten Wilms <self(a)thorstenwilms.com>
wrote:
On 12.04.2016 02:37, jonetsu(a)teksavvy.com wrote:
It is not obvious that
after so much time spent on a piece adjusting sometimes up to 25
tracks, that all is thrown to a mathematical function that will
modify levels. So I use 'non-norm' now and wonder why normalization is
a default in Ardour/Mixbus.
This sounds like you still haven't understood what normalization does.
Given one session of one piece of music, normalization doesn't modify
"levels", it modifies one level, making it equivalent to nudging the master
gain fader.
Aside of the shortcoming that Ardour's current normalization on export
does not take inter-sample peaks into account, the whole issue is one of
relative loudness between several pieces in one playlist, on an album,
broadcast on one channel, streamed as one of many on an online service ...
as well as having the headroom to say, make an explosion louder than a kick
drum.
Ardour's default happened in times of the loudness war, under the
assumption that at least for Pop/Rock/Dance productions, there was no
question the peaks of a production would be very even and should hit full
scale. Now I know better, Robin and Paul know even much better and work is
under way to make Ardour's export facilities support modern standards.
Now if only broadcasters and streamers could agree on a single reference
level for music ...
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