Normalizing

[Joejoe]

Is normalizing to 100% the loudest u can go when your done with the mix..I extracted some cd's on to a wav file.One was louder than the other.Can u make it louder than 100%.

 

[Gidge]

normalizing brings the highest peak of the song to 0db(or something to that effect)...any high would cause nasty digital distortion.....

you could compress it first, then normalize....if thats not enough, compress it again, and normalize again.....keep repeating until its loud enough to wake the neighbors...but each time you do so you rob the track of its dynamics and "life".....

 

[Blue Bear Sound]

Is normalizing to 100% the loudest u can go when your done with the mix..I extracted some cd's on to a wav file.One was louder than the other.Can u make it louder than 100%.

Obviously, 100% is the loudest you can get.... (100% by definition is the maximum of anything)

What's confusing you is that Normalizing deals only with peak levels which do not correlate to the apparent loudness (or even RMS volume, for that matter) of a track.

Incidently, normalizing is not a commonly used process as it raises the noise floor by the same factor as the signal level.

Bruce