The other thing about normalizing is you’re almost always going to end up attenuating it with a fader anyway. Mine usually have a snare peak that makes sense to have at the about same level between samples. I don’t see the point.ĭrum loops are somewhat of an exception. Generally when I save loops, or get samples from somewhere more often than not they’re intentionally at sensible relative volumes. Normalizing everything doesn’t make sense to me. This isn't intended as some kind of production 'hot tip', it just seems relevent to the conversation in this thread thus far. The size of the kick waveform and it's relatively low peaking level belies it's importance to the overall balance of the track. But all of the weight comes from the 909 kick (which I play then mute 2 bars at a time). As you can see in the screengrab, I've sub mixed the core of the instrumentation with buss compression and limiting. I'm working on a remix this afternoon that's a prime example of how things can appear counter intuitive. I've always thought than managing compression and saturation are far more important when it comes to understanding the percieved volume of a track (maybe that come from a background of recording to tape). And that more often than not ends up in a situation where everything sounds a mushy mess, even with very few channels of audio, and the combined percieved volume is still relatively quiet.Īs has been mentioned already, normalizing simply raises the volume of everything so that the highest peak doesn't clip. They end up with every audio loop, audio stem, percussion sample etc peaking at zero dB and then mix into a limiter/maximizer or such like. Beginners relate normalizing to loudness. The big problem I have with normalizing is that it can teach bad production habits. Limiting and compression are all about altering dynamic range - and can be subtle or not. It doesn't change the dynamic range of the material just the maximum volume and won't introduce distortion. Normalization is simply a process where you specify your target maximum amplitude and the software scans the audio file and determines how much gain should be applied (uniformly) to the file to achieve that target volume. Normalization is a totally different thing. If you are into mixing, it is worth doing a little research about the various uses and abuses of limiters and compressors. There are many approaches that hardware and software limiters take - they are often used to maximize apparent volume without obvious distortion. The limiter then applies the gain but limits the maximum volume to the threshold that you selected. Limiting generally refers to setting a maximum volume threshold and an amount of gain to apply. Like set it between a range and it either boosts the volume or drops it ? said:īut limiting is when you take audio and decide where you want the volume to rest. That’s a useful feature, but not normalization in the normal usage of the word. I’m sure they’re not scanning a full 20 minute audio file ahead of the playhead, especially since there’s no way way a host is feeding that to them in the first place. What they’re calling normalization is really limiting, though maybe with just a long look ahead. If there is a zero dB peak already in the file then nothing happens. Normalization, as I’ve always understood it, is scanning an entire file, determining the gain needed to raise the highest point eak to 0db and then applying that gain uniformly across the whole file. Technically that isn’t normalization IMO. I've found that it excels at both and did specifically ask for a plugin for quicker normalization workflows. Pretty much all audio editors and DAWs have a normalization command.Īgreed, but it's worth noting that Amazing Noise do make it clear in their documentation for Limiter that the plugin offers 'live' normalization and this can be used for effects that range "from very gentle volume attenuation to heavy distortion". Limiters and compressors don't normalize. Said: : Since real normalization is a two pass process, it isn't something one would normally use a plug-in to do since without scanning the whole audio file, there wouldn't be a way for the plugin to know how much gain to apply.
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