Re: [LAU] Batch normalising wav files

On 12/25/2010 12:49 PM, fons(a)kokkinizita.net wrote: true. the fun thing was you could see his slide announcing the next demo snippets. imagine reading this: 1. peak-normalized metallica single 2. pink noise at full scale now when you frequently use your average run-of-the-mill pink noise generator at -20dBFS to test speaker arrays, you do have a gut feeling of how "loud" pink noise is. in fact, for reasonable time windows, you're pretty likely to get an average loudness - with JAPA's pink noise generator for instance, the loudness osciallates around a mean value such that if your meter integrates for longer than, say, a second, the reading will be pretty much constant. so the second line was enough to make me cringe and grope for my ear plugs. so it was quite a laugh when the perceived loudness was a lot lower than for the first example.