Mike Rivers wrote:
EVERYTHING changes the audio quality. If a gain change is necessary
for aesthetic reasons (or perceived reasons) it does no more harm to
make that change using the Normalize function than to do it by manual
means, at least by the means that might be available to the casual
user.
The key word here is "necessary." If you're just going to be changing
the volume again in the final mix, normalizing only adds noise and/or
distortion.
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Bob Olhsson Audio Mastery, Nashville TN
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