Just a second thought: Normalize is something I tend to use mainly with BB/RB tracks that come out of the "box" a bit too low. many are nice full waves, but for some reason, there are a few that come out low. Maybe they were recorded that way originally.

In my live tracking, I rarely ever use Normalize on the tracks. If I end up with a weak track in my live studio setting, I record it again after fixing the input levels. A weak track simply was not recorded properly, so do it again, and do it right.

In the final mix stages....after I have exported the final mix, I open it in my wave editor and have a look at it. I will generally use normalize at this stage as the last step in the process to bring it to just under 100% with Normalize. I don't want the highest peak to touch 100% or 0db.... depending on how you look at it. Leave some head room for the mp3 conversion process.

Last edited by Guitarhacker; 06/10/14 07:17 AM.
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