Normalization question

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I want to burn a CD that will have both .wav files and mp3s. Will
normalizing the tracks only "raise" the volume of the mp3 to match that
of the .wav files, or will the volume of the .wav files be "lowered" to
match the mp3s, thus compromising their sound quality?

Shnaggletooth

 

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In article <1108651609.964582.310300@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com>,
<shnaggletooth@yahoo.com> wrote:

>I want to burn a CD that will have both .wav files and mp3s. Will
>normalizing the tracks only "raise" the volume of the mp3 to match that
>of the .wav files, or will the volume of the .wav files be "lowered" to
>match the mp3s, thus compromising their sound quality?

That depends entirely on what software you use to perform the
normalization.

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<shnaggletooth@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>I want to burn a CD that will have both .wav files and mp3s. Will
> normalizing the tracks only "raise" the volume of the mp3 to match that
> of the .wav files, or will the volume of the .wav files be "lowered" to
> match the mp3s, thus compromising their sound quality?

Each track is normally raised to the maximum value.

Some normalise functions are tweakable to either specify a value to
normalise to, or use weighting to normalise to average RMS levels.

But given the nature of your question, don't worry about that. The answer is
"raise".

geoff