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I thought we were talking about only on file. Sorry if I am mistaken, but I know only one definition in professional audio.
Matching levels betwen multiple tracks (songs) is a mastering function.
<L>
Lou Judson
Intuitive Audio
415-883-2689

On Mar 4, 2018, at 10:57 AM, John Haley <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Sorry, Lou, not the way I have seen "normalized" used.  Perhaps that is
> related to what you are saying, if one views the exercise as raising all
> the tracks to their "max."  It is about balancing the relative level among
> a number of tracks,not just raising one track to its max level.
> 
> Best,
> John
> 
> 
> On Sun, Mar 4, 2018 at 1:40 PM, Tim Gillett <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> 
>> The "swish" energy is possibly full of highs and the loudest thing in the
>> recording, which is why a standard denoiser wont touch it. It's looking to
>> reduce low level sounds.
>> 
>> The swish will also probably contain  frequencies way above that of the
>> wanted program, as well as above human audibility.
>> For access, I'd declick and then probably subjectively filter out a lot of
>> those highs, and even lows,  but without an audio sample hard to be sure.
>> 
>> Tim
>> 
>> 
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Stamler" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Monday, March 05, 2018 2:18 AM
>> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] RX5, etc.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 3/4/2018 12:10 PM, Lou Judson wrote:
>>> 
>>>> It is also possible that the clipping sounds are from overloading the
>>>> D/A, whilst the waveform is okay. It is called �intersample peaks� and
>>>> one reason I avoid normalizing. Try normalizing to -1 or -2 and see if it
>>>> still sounds bad. Or, as I said, use a look-ahead limiter, again instead of
>>>> normalizing!
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Yet another reason why normalizing is generally a bad policy.
>>> 
>>> Peace,
>>> Paul
>>> 
>>> <L>
>>>> Lou Judson
>>>> Intuitive Audio
>>>> 415-883-2689
>>>> 
>>>> On Mar 4, 2018, at 10:02 AM, Tim Gillett <[log in to unmask]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> The crackling noises after normalising sound like clipping.  You could
>>>>> visually inspect (by magnifying) the waveform peaks both before and after
>>>>> normalising. Have you tried normalising but minus a few db's?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Tim
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
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