Originally Posted By: Matt Finley
When I discovered Izotope’s Ozone with its Maximize function about twenty years ago, that made the difference in producing tracks with the same energy as commercial tracks. Waves also made a tool for this.

However, there are still occasions where I use Normalize. It’s just a tool. Use it where it’s needed.

Exactly.

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I never use Normalize, because I completely loose control of my tracks in the mix - basically it's like adding an Adaptive Limiter on each track, …


It's absolutely not basically like that at all.

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When I want to yank up the total volume, the first thing is a very lite compressor to glue the mix together…



Normalize does not take the place of any of this.


It's ok not to know how to use this tool. Craig's article can help you with this. If you're not going to use it, however, it helps to understand what it does and how it works, first.


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