Normalizing in Cubase

[HeadCrusher]

One thing I've never been sure about:

If I select all the tracks in a project and then right click/effects/normalize how are the tracks normalized?

Everyone in relation to itself or does the program search for the peak in the whole project and goes from there?

I guess it's the first option cause you can see how it writes "Normalizing track x" one after another - well, I guess I've given me my own answer but it would be nice to hear the same from someone who knows for sure!

thx.

 

[LSD-Studio]

each region on its own., so in most cases it makes sense to consolidate the tracks before normalizing.
....
in most cases there's no need for normalizing though....

 

[Ben Johnson]

Isn't normalizing generally a really bad thing to do? Well, from a "gearslut'z" perspective it is...

 

[HeadCrusher]

Every region on its own? Wow, I wouldn't have thought that...
BTW: Is there a faster way of consolidating them than drawing blank regions between them and clueing them together afterwards?

So why shouldn't I normalize at all?

 

[Torniojaws]

BTW: Is there a faster way of consolidating them than drawing blank regions between them and clueing them together afterwards?

Yes, simply select everything on the track(s) and Bounce them Cubase will automagically fill the gaps with silence. The only thing you need to draw manually is the beginning of the track if it doesn't start at zero.

 

[LSD-Studio]

Every region on its own? Wow, I wouldn't have thought that...
BTW: Is there a faster way of consolidating them than drawing blank regions between them and clueing them together afterwards?

So why shouldn't I normalize at all?

glueing isn't consolidatin, it's still seperate wavs glued together.
to consolidate just highlight all regions on a track and rightclick-->"audio"-->"auswahl als datei"

normalizing is processing, any form of processing can create mistakes, artefacts etc...
also most of the time not audibleit's better to avoid it and just raise the fader instead.
I don't see that too stern though.

 

[HeadCrusher]

glueing isn't consolidatin, it's still seperate wavs glued together.
to consolidate just highlight all regions on a track and rightclick-->"audio"-->"auswahl als datei"

Yeah, thanks (even in German! ), but I knew that. But this way I still have to reimport the track into the project if I wanted only one region (= the whole .wav) on per track....

 

[LSD-Studio]

Yeah, thanks (even in German! ), but I knew that. But this way I still have to reimport the track into the project if I wanted only one region (= the whole .wav) on per track....

No.
just click on "datei ersetzen" and the consolidated file will replace the previously selevted snippets.

 

[Where She Wept]

Normalizing = bad

 

[deathtotaliban]

i've always heard that normalizing was a bad thing to do as well, not really sure why but thats what I have always been told/heard

 

[AudioPhile777]

Actually, since I stopped normalizing, I've gotten nothing but good (not great, but better) comments on my mixes...

I've also heard that relying on normalizing isnt good but still, no one has told me why.

 

[Torniojaws]

Normalizing increases the bottom noise level as much as it increases the sound clip. If you had a very quiet original recording, you will get horrible amounts of noise when you normalize the track.

 

[HeadCrusher]

No.
just click on "datei ersetzen" and the consolidated file will replace the previously selevted snippets.

Thanks!

Yeah, I'm aware that normalizing also raises the noise level. But for example some the Hammerfall tracks of Hearts on Fire are extremely quiet with the Fader at 0...

 

[elmuchoescadawg]

So if normalising is generally considered to be a bad thing why is it included as a feature?

Are there instances where used sparingly it can be good?