Normalization

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Bobbsy said:
Well, I can tell you why (but please don't assume my explanation means I agree with it!).

People these days are seriously averse to ever using the volume knob on their stereo (or MP3 player or car radio or whatever). That's why we get so many questions in here about "why are my recordings quieter than commercial ones". For whatever reason, any need to adjust playback level is viewed as a bad thing by the great unwashed.

Add to this the fact that listening habits have changed. Thirty or forty years ago, you listened to music on a big box in your living room (or, if you were a lucky teenager, your bedroom). Nowadays though, most listening is done on personal stereos or in cars. This means that you're listening in noisy environments like streets, buses or trains. This gives you a noise floor of 80 to 85dBSPL before you even get to the music. (It also gives us a generation of youths who are partially deaf by 21 but that's another argument.)

Of course, there's a lot more to the loudness wars than just the level of a single peak in your music--but that's the "why" were are where we are today.
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You've saved me so many words telling just as it IS !!!!
 
GuitarLegend said:
So does compression if you apply any makeup gain.
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And so does simply pushing up a fader on a channel.

There's nothing evil about normalisation...or moving a fader or compression or hard limiting. They're all tools. Just know how and when to use them.
 
Gads. This might be third time around the block?
Wonder do people read these things.. first?
 
mixsit said:
Gads. This might be third time around the block?
Wonder do people read these things.. first?
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Very likely not... I read a lot of threads but I dont read every post in the thread except on rare occasions, I only respond to the most recent, just like you do in an ordinary conversation, no matter how many times the conversation has been had before. If you refer me to another thread it means I have to read the whole thread and I dont have the time to do that. Just respond to a question when and where it is raised
 
All those things are tools and so are some of the people who use/abuse them.
 
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