Thanks Pat - that's clear. I realised it would have to read ahead to find the max level value and then boost the track by whatever the available headroom was (along with the noise floor!). I've used that kind of normalisation before in Sonar - on individual tracks in a mix. What I often found was there were high-level transients somewhere in the track that were a lot higher than the average level so actually the normalisation didn't have much headroom to work with...until I compressed (or zapped) the transients.
This shoudn't be the case on a full mix coming off a CD (almost certainly brick-wall limited during astering these days!). Cheers Phil -- Phil Leigh ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30898 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
