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You'll find this in every text book in Bold



Can you provide a source? I've been researching this for a couple of days and I can't find anything truly authoritative. The consensus of what I have found definately disagrees with your claims.

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Nomralization degrades the quality of audio by adding degrading calculation and quantization distortion.



Everything I've found suggests the degradation will be minimal. No worse than any other digital manipulation.

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Normalization should never be used to regulate song Levels in an Album.



According to everything I've read this is a common process during the mastering of an album. Probably necessary if the audio comes from different sources. The listener isn't going to be happy if there are sudden changes in volume.

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