Geoff Wood wrote:

In all of the cases I've presented so far in defense of my use of
Normalize, I would surmise that simply employing its default behaviour
(i.e. normalizing to -12dBFS instead of -10dBFS) would be all that's
required to achieve said effect of "bringing soft music near 0dBFS".

In the circumstances that is quite a reasonable thing to be doing.

Good. In the meantime I'll start exploring my options with MP3Gain as
well as looking into upgrading Notlame (not that I have a problem with
the one I have already but... 2 years is quite a long time in this
arena). And, of course, more reading and testing and posting of results
as they become available.

A lot of bandwidth would have been saved if you had clearly explained that
(last week) and had been able to explain that "Normalise (application)
prevents clippiong when RMS normalising.

Well, the asinine stupidity continues over in the other thread even to
this day so I'm not so sure the *******s over there are really all that
interested in really being all that much help to anyone, regardless. It
seems their only goal is to compete and see who can be the biggest
*******. They're like little Chihuahuas who incessantly bark at all
passersby in an effort to try and make themselves appear bigger than
they and everyone else knows that they really are.

I've described since the beginnings of this discussion in the other
newsgroup(s) my use of -10dBFS as a means I've discovered by which I can
achieve "slightly hot" levels which (at least to me) are similar to
allowing the meters to "lightly touch red" when recording to analog tape
which, AFAIK, is a perfectly sensible analog recording technique which I
have sorely missed being able to do since making the switch into the
digital realm.

Most semi-pro-and up Windows (or Mac) audio software has plugins available
to achieve pretty much just that.

Well, when my professional and/or personal requirements extend beyond
that of simply needing to make "better" MP3s from my low-level CDs,
you'll be the first I'll call for advice on what to use. I'd much
prefer to slap something on my iMac so as to make that stupid thing a
bit more useful to me than it is right now, seeing as how it helps to
have one when you design pages which you want the whole world to be able
to see see equally well - rather than just the "ordinary Windows users"
who're out there in the world.

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Try learning how to use it someday. You might find the cost-free,
crash-free, virus-free, anti-virus-free, constant-reboot-hassle-free,
Microsoft-bull****-free life to be kinda nice for a change.

Myke

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