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Re: [L-OT] normalize before mastering or not

2001-11-16 by marc lindahl

It would cause a slight increase in noise - either quantization noise or
dither noise if dithered.  Point is, the mastering engineer is further
processing the signal so why do it.

> From: LogicBaby <basharar@...>
> Reply-To: logic-ot@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2001 03:25:11 +0800
> To: "logic ot yahoogroups.com" <logic-ot@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: Re: [L-OT] normalize before mastering or not
> 
> Sorry if I missed this, but my understanding of normalization is that you
> find  the highest value "a peak" then multiply the bits uniformly by a
> factor that will bring the peak to 0db. I don¹t see why multiplying would
> cause errors since the magnification factor is uniformly applied to the
> sample data with respect to time.
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