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Re: [L-OT]Should you always Normalize?

2002-02-22 by Spectro

>  > Normalising obviously introduces some distortion -- the numbers
>have
>>  to be multiplied by some factor and then rounded to the next whole
>>  number --
>
>Afaik this isn't right. To my understanding, the numbers are not
>multiplied by a factor, but rather added to a number high enough to
>make the peak hit 0 db. Thus there is no rounding anything, and no
>distortion.

No, They *are* multiplied. Adding a value will offset the waveform.

S.
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