Normalizing brings out disparate opinions. Some use and love it, but some purists despise it.

I do my normalizing in a stereo audio editor. I have never tried it using BIAB. I like John's general approach.

There is a whole lot to this subject that makes me wonder if normalizing a group of files would be a good idea. Normalizing just adjusts levels upward from the loudest sound in a file, but it doesn't help with the average perceived volume of the song. In other words, I think it would result in terrible differences in perceived volume of a group of songs. But again, not having tried it, I don't know how BIAB does it.


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