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| quote: | Originally posted by GrimReaper
Yes it's good to normalise the whole mix in the end, it might "fix" things if you have been sloppy with the volume gains, playing some tracks too loud or too quiet so normalising evens out the differences and levels down the peaks.
Although depending on the tracks, the results of normalising separate tracks on a cd might vary. It's usually fine if you only use tracks with proper beats but if you also include tracks with very soft beats or especially beatless tracks, in some cases those might end up sounding much louder than the "more beaty" tracks because the normalisation process tries to compensate the lack of proper beats to compare with the other tracks by boosting up other elements. |
It won't fix anything if he's been sloppy with the volume gains. Normalizing only increases/decreases the peak volume. So if he played 2 tracks and 1 peaks (the highest volume of that track) at -3db and the second track peaks at -1db and then normalizes that mix to 0db the result will be; track 1 max peak volume at -2db and track 2 at 0db (that's not theoretically correct, because Db is a logarithmic unit but you get the idea). Basically exactly the same as if he'd set the volume control on his amp 2 db louder.
The second part of your post is pure nonsense.
Unique2701: normalize everything as many times as you want. You can't lose anything if you normalize a track 50 times (except your free time). The reason that track from an old album was so quiet compared to the new track is, because of loudness wars/headroom/compression/limiting/dynamic range which is itself a lengthy rant.
What you need if you want your mixes to sound 'even' is a brickwall limiter.
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