"I think the ultimate conclusion to draw is: improve your recording methods so that normalization is not needed; thereby keeping your noise floor at as low a level as possible." thats a quote from 'Lick my love pump....' and i must agree, most of the time you should not have to normalise.... just use it when you mess up and don't get the signal you require.
and what that bloke said about all the bit crunching etc... "1 to 4 ratio, rather 1 to 4.0957440159990000624960939941254 ratio." hummmm, i'd hate to hear what he had to said about digital compression.... interesting though.
L8r,... Dave
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