If you are worried about clipping while adding effects to a track, then either use the trim control to prevent the plugin chain from clipping or use the gain controls built into most plugins to prevent clipping. Anything else is considered gain adjustment (in theory they are the same though). Any thoughts on this approach or suggestions on better ways/reasons to normalize? But, I have no rhyme or reason for this approach - I just started doing it one day years ago - it seemed to make sense and it works, so I stuck with it. Then, I control mix headroom by bringing down the track levels as needed. drums, vocals) to just below 0dB to prevent clipping. Do you have any hard/soft rules regarding which instruments to normalize and how much for each? I typically normalize instruments that will be up front and have varying volumes (esp. Hey Gordon (& others), I'm just curious to know what dB level do you typically normalize to. This all means, that if you have a noise problem in your final mix due to the noise of a track, it was due to the background noise or preamp noise or microphone noise recorded with the track, not the normalization or the internal processing of the track. Let me add that any increase of the volume of a track, via normalization or increase gain or the fader will make the inherit noise in the track louder, but will not add noise to the track. The bottom line, what you did was unnecessary, but not damaging, so don't worry, be happy! I wouldn't worry about the noise, digital normalization and then digital fader, don't add noise and don't degrade the signal unless you were using 16-bit fixed-point WAV files, in which case you might have added about -93db of dither noise to the track, which will be insignificant after the fader.
Its does not sound bad but i am worried i may have introduced unnecceary noise that may become apparent as i proceed with mixing it. It did not work as well as I hoped, and I eneded up normalizing.
This made all of the rest of of the processing much easier.Īs an aside, I once tried to compensate for a low level just using track gain. He went fro "0 to 60" dynamics-wise in split seconds, and to avoid missing a good take, I recorded him somewhat lower than ususal, then permanently or "destructively" normalized (actually I applied a little brickwall limiting) to reduce his wild dynamic range. I did this extensively while recording a fabulous but crazy jazz trumpeter. I normalize in these instances to make the track act more like my typical tracks captured at hotter levels. Yes it will work, but any presets I may have created won't. You have to set thresholds at what look like ridiculously low levels. Compressors are more difficult to setup when the signal is very low. One instance where I normalize is if I have captured a performance at a relatively low level that I intend to pass through processors like reverb, and in particular compression. Normalization in and of itself is not a bad thing, though not always required. If added effects cause clipping, simply turn down the track volume. If this were the case, any recording might be in danger of clipping when anything applied to it raised the signal, wether it was normalized beforehand or not.
It is not necessary to leave "headroom" in digital recordings. The problem with normalizing is it removes all extra headroom. Is there a way of returning my audio back to its pristine non normalized condition, without losing all of my edits. So question i read somewhere that SOnar keeps a copy of the original audio, ie that normalise is a non destructive edit.
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PLus overdubs, Quite a few days work to redo from scratch, plus some possibly unrepeatable performances. I have performed a lot of edits on the material. However i cannot do this via UNDO, becuase since i performed the normalize (literally after recoridng the backing tracks. I was not using normalization to save a low recording, I had been taught to use it to quickly get everythign in a track in the same ball park levels wise.
I shoudl add that all audio was recorded at the right levels, not clipping but not too low either. I was taught to normalise all audio, probably a mistake but there you go, I have jsut been reading about the perils and pitfalls of normalizing, and wish to remove it from some tracks i have normalized.
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