Normalizing problem

[kbguru]

I’m new here but have a question my band and I have been using the Cool Edit recording program to record our audio.
When we adjust each individual track and play it back pre normalizing it sounds fine but after normalization to 96% and we have experimented with various other % qualities with a similar result, but after it is normalized it seems to Pump the gain on something’s through the roof and plant others into the ground and clips like wild fire in some places it also records comes out lower then prior, I don’t know what to do is there any way to normalize and be less intrusive to the levels that have already been set?
I’ve heard of Intelligent leveling but am not sure if this is what we need or how to go about it.
If some one can help me with this i'd be grateful both i and the other guys are new to this.
write me at karmablaque@gmail.com

[tourettes5139]

Honestly, just don't normalize. Plus, this has been covered many times, I believe. Try a search.

[mrT]

Why are you normalizing in the first place?

[metalhead28]

Okay, so before normalizing......everything's okay. After normalizing...everything goes to hell. Seems obvious to me .

Seriously, normalizing doesn't do anything for you anyway. All it does is increase the vloume of the track to it's maximum without clipping (or up to the percentage that you designate) Honestly, you could just turn the fader up. All of the individual tracks definitely don't need to be maxed out in a mix.

[Farview]

If all the tracks are at full volume, you will be clipping the mix buss and/or the mix outputs.

Normalizing is a waste of time. If you use this to turn up all the tracks, you will have to turn all the faders way down to compensate for the gain boost. Just stop. It is useless to do on a track level.

[bair_ohio]

I do not personally use this feature unless im in a huge hurry and need to burn a reference cd and need it loud.

Is their a practical use for this feature?

In what situation would you use Normalize?

[Farview]

Only on a main mix after you have compressed and EQ'd. It should be the very last thing in the process.

[SouthSIDE Glen]

^^^^^^^
Yeah, what Jay said.

G.

[kbguru]

Thanks for your feed back every one, as you can tell we are new to home recording.
I think we have been using normalizing for the wrong reason then, see when we burn a CD with the unnormalized product it sounds great on the computer but it will not play in a normal CD player,
When we normalize, it sounds horrid but will burn a cd player playable CD.
What is our problem here?
Is it the way we recorded the stuff? (we recorded it at 32 bit and 48 kilohertz
Using cool edit)
how can we make it play in a normal CD player with out the normalizing? And why will it not play in one unless we do?
If any one can tell us what’s going on here, and possibly suggest a way to take care of it we would be forever grateful we spent a load of time and cash putting every thing together and now we are stumped and swinging in the dark.
please help

[Farview]

Mix down to 44.1/16bit. There really is no compelling reason to record at 32 bit. 24 bit is just as good.