On 9/28/07, Kiran Jonnalagadda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 28-Sep-07, at 5:41 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > > > This appears to be a volume normalizer. How would that help when > > the waveforms have been clipped by "turning it to 11" while > > engineering the album? > > It can't do anything about clipping, but does help with those maxed > out without clipping. My music library used to have wildly > inconsistent volume levels and the iTunes volume levelling wasn't > helping. AACGain fixed that.
Normalizing volumes between tracks doesn't fix the problem. If anything it makes it worse. Not all tracks on an album necessarily should have the same maximum volume. The problem is compression (and a little bit equalization) and the "fix" is expansion, not normalization. Problem is that compression is lossy, and expansion is no magic bullet. -- Charles
