Normalizing using NERO

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Mr Blues

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I am still learning in basic home recording.

What i have done is mastered some of my songs on my Tascam DP-01FX recorded them onto my Tascam CD-RW900SL CD recorder using the optical cable then ripped the songs using Windows XP media player then burned them onto CD using nero on my computor.

ON Nero it has a tick box asking if I want to normalise the songs.

What does normalizing do exactly is it worth doing it?

Dave
 
It brings the song to its maximum volume level. Digital audio can't go above 0db, if it does, it gets clipped off and sounds distorted. Normalizing takes the loudest peak closest to 0db, and raises it to 0db (or whatever value you specify) and brings up the rest of the song by the same amount. It's like turning up your volume except doing it internally in the WAV file itself.

If you already mastered your songs you probably should have taken care of the volume then. If you do normalize a song (and everyone here will tell you not to), it should probably be the 2nd to last step before dithering. This is assuming you recorded at something higher than 16-bit (like 24-bit).
 
Thanks Dan.

Thats interesting.

My Tascam is only a 16 bit , thansk for that advice.

dave
 
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