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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.




I've seen this in just about any ligitimate Audio mastering and mixing book,master class..etc

Direct quote from :
http://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Audio-Se...3376&sr=8-1

In fact he's got a nice example for it too. If you throw all the song of an album in whatever sequencer you're using, and normalize all of them thinking you're getting them to a nice loud level, it's very much possible that a Ballad will sound louder than a rock song in the same album...other surprises could happen too, that's why he says Normalization should never be used to regulate song levels in an album.

By the way, I never said "normalization" should never be used. Always it's a combination of factors that lead to a pleasant convincing result. Too much of something never works, no matter what the definition is.

Last edited by tritonkorg; 01/04/10 12:39 PM.