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Originally Posted by Wizzoboy
You shouldn't be mastering MP3s.
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That^^^^. And as bad an idea as that is at first glance, its actually a whole lot worse than you think. Why? Great question. Because, no only have you reduced the sonic quality by a huge factor, you also are converting the mp3 back into a wave file(assuming your "normalizing" session is using wave as the file format).
Keep the audio quality at the original settings as long as possible(if your song starts out at 24 bit/44.1K, keep it there until the very final stage).
As for "normalize", I bet what you really want is for all songs to sound louder than the mix-down(or Bounce to Disk) as well as having all songs sound similar in overall volume. But that's not really a function of the normalize process(or plugin). This is one of the chief functions of mastering. Maybe hit youtube.com and watch some tutorials on basic mastering so you can see(hear) the difference
