[jtougas]

Hi folks -

In my pursuit of improving my recordings, I've taken a few of my mixes
to a friend of mine, to see what he thinks, and I mentioned I'd
normalized one or two of the channels in the tracks since they were a
little quieter than the others.

He looked at me with a fairly shocked expression and said "Oh, man,
you should never normalize!"

I shrugged and said "Okay" (I was after, going to him for advice). But
I should have asked him why not.

So I'm asking y'all: why not?

Or should I take the middle road and apply sparingly?

I tend to record solo singer/songwriters with guitar, so there's not a
lot of background stuff going on with which I could hide problems.
--
jtougas

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let's go" - e.e. cummings