The Logic Off Topic list

Hendrik Jan Veenstra wrote:

>I don't think you get the gist of John's argument.  John explicitely 
>says that using a Gainer plug-in is preferable to normalizing in the 
>sample editor.  Saying that "they all raise signal and noise" misses 
>the point, which is that anything done at 24 bits introduces more 
>noise than when done at 32 bit.
>
I am actually referring to another point John made in his post....namely:

>Normalization doesn't affect the dynamic range of a signal, there will
>still be X dB difference between noisefloor and loudest peaks before
>and after normalization. 
>
That is, normalization raises both the noise floor (as well as the 
signal), but it also degrades the sound quality because it is a 
destructive edit made at a bit depth of 16 or 24-bit which is certainly 
introduces more quantization error than the 32-bit floating point 
resolution of the Gainer and Normalization function. 

Kind regards,
Dave