Normalising......Good or bad?

[Hollowcell]

Thanks for asking Jasesdee.

I was eagerly waiting for your reply to this, but still the quest continues.

I definately agree with your lecturer in regards to how people use normalizing. People seem to use it to boost poor recording alot. I never seem to use it to boost more than 1db on the final mix and sometimes I do get the final mix sitting at 0db - rare though. Did he mention when to use it then?

Also what he said about people wanting their CDs to have the highest volume possible - this is along the lines of what I was talking about earlier in the thread.

Blaming companies for releasing technolgy that gives more options to the average consumer is pretty fucked up though. Maybe he lost his job as an engineer or something. Maybe a few years back people with no knowledge would hear the before and afters and be overwhelmed with what the engineer had achived with their music, but now people can get closer than before to a polished sound.

That forum that Martyn linked us too before had a thread where the engineers were talking about what they should do if a home recording comes in and they don't have to do anything to it - I bet that never happened 5 years ago.

Anyway, hopefully someone will come along with a technical explanation.