RE: [MP3 ENCODER] Normalization routine?

[Richard A. Smith]

On Mon, 17 Jan 2000 11:03:57 -0500, Mark Stephens wrote:

>Wouldn't that be compression, instead of normalization?

I don't really know.  I don't have much experience with compressors. 
Will a compressor boost a quiet waveform and allow it to clip?

>I still have an old DBX compressor/expander box where I can choose to
>compress over the whole range, or set it to peak limiting mode and only
>compress over a certain threshold.  It sounds like it might be valuable to
>have a routine that can do peak limiting, and then normalize the result.

I don't understand what you mean by peak limiting and why it would be
necessary if you are going to normalization. 



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