[hank alrich]

Anders Svinndal wrote:

As others have mentioned I can't see any reason to normalize individual
tracks in a multi-track project. However; if the final mix has a peak-level
some dB below 0 dBFS I can't see any reason not to normalize it. Most of us
will record and mix in 24 bit which have more headroom then the final 16 bit
CD, so normalizing the mix before dithering to 16 bit will make better use
of the dynamic range on the final CD.

I would leave level maximizing to the mastering engineer. I would not
put him/her in the position of having to reduce the level of my tracks
to get them all to match nicely. I'd leave him headroom to work with.

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