Mike Rivers wrote:
Normalizing is often frowned upon by pseudo (and some real)
"professionals," not because it does any damage, but because it
shouldn't be necessary because you should have set the record level so
that it reaches the desired playback level. The damage, if any, has
already been done in the recording process, and you're not making
anything any better by normalizing . . .
The additional quantization caused by the gain change DOES damage the
audio quality!
The only time "normalization" can possibly buy you anything is in the
final D to A conversion. Otherwise it only adds noise or distortion if
you fail dither your gain change.
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