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 >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>> --- >>> This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. >>> https://www.avast.com/antivirus >>> >> >