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Old 12-06-2001, 12:27 AM
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I'm a bit wary of using normalising in pro tools. Does anyone use it?

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Old 12-06-2001, 07:21 AM
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Default Re: Normalising

normalising is totally unuseful.

Your audio has a resolution. If you normalize it, you don't add resolution, you only have a louder track.
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Old 12-06-2001, 10:18 AM
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The normalize function has come to the rescue for me on one or two rare occasions when the source material was seriously anemic. Sometimes "louder" is just the ticket!
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Old 12-06-2001, 10:27 AM
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I do post. Get lots of way-too-low-level stuff to work with, muttery dialog, etc. Use normalize all the time. Works fine.
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Old 12-06-2001, 10:28 AM
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Default Re: Normalising

Check out the "gain" function in Audiosuite. You set it to "find peak" and it tells you how many dBs below Full Scale the file is. Then it lets you add as much gain (or as little) as you like. Great for making a bunch of stuff sound the same e.g. leaving a quiet song quiet. It just seems more flexible than normalising.
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Old 12-06-2001, 03:16 PM
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Default Re: Normalising

I am in post and I use both.

I 'normalize' sometimes for way low dialogue or anything else that just needs the crap kicked out of it, but I almost never normalize 100%. I find this is just too harsh, so I back it off about 2-3db before processing it. That usually sounds fine and gives me the needed boost.

I 'gain' it when I want more control, or want to preview it. Like Doug, I usually 'Find Peak' first, then adjust accordingly.

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Old 12-10-2001, 10:07 AM
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Default Re: Normalising

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:<HR>Originally posted by Strider:
I am in post and I use both.

I 'normalize' sometimes for way low dialogue or anything else that just needs the crap kicked out of it, but I almost never normalize 100%. I find this is just too harsh, so I back it off about 2-3db before processing it. That usually sounds fine and gives me the needed boost.

I 'gain' it when I want more control, or want to preview it. Like Doug, I usually 'Find Peak' first, then adjust accordingly.

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Old 12-13-2001, 12:34 AM
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Default Re: Normalising

another post person says:

i use it for certain situations - like when i want a group of audio regions to be referenced to the same peak (which is what normalising does, after all). i rarely normalise to 0 dBFS; usually it's to a level which brings the regions up (or down!) to somewhere near 0 dB VU.
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i rarely use Gain. i'd rather edit the audio regions more explicitly, and then obtain the desired result with Normalise. any regions that need something else will get reprinted with waves L1, or perhaps altered with plug-in or fader automation curves.
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