The simple answer is that Normalize looks at your entire WAV form, calculates distance from the highest peak to 0dB (the point at which clipping occurs), and then raises everything by that amount. Of course, if there is noise on the track, the noise gets raised, too.

One thing to be careful of with normalize, however, is that it only takes one loud spike to keep the rest of the track from increasing.


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