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This completely makes no sense. If you have to move up your slider to make the recording audible, you move up those noises just as well with it. In that way fader adjustments have the same effect as normalizing. In case that the "soft" accoustic recording can stand out enough without normalizing then a normalized track can be corrected by pulling down the fader and with it the noises.



No way! What you said makes no sense to me neither. Normalizing a track has not the same effect as turning up the volume fader entirely, such that you could do one or the other,especially during the mixing stage. You'll find this in every text book in Bold: Nomralization degrades the quality of audio by adding degrading calculation and quantization distortion. Normalization DEGRADES and Worsens the quality of the Audio. Normalization should never be used to regulate song Levels in an Album.
It should be only used sparingly. Normalizing a track is not the same as turning up the volume fader by the same amount, although in both cases the loudness might sound identical.