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Originally Posted by roosterino  thanks for the replies.
so....since Audition is at 32 bits and my mix is 24bit, I should be ok. My non-alien (yet somewhat alien-looking) ears tells me most the master are ok. |
With 24bit audio (although Audition's 32bit floating is probably even better), you can do whatever amplifying audio operation you want and your audio will be fine. I think people get obsessed over this "normalization degradation" issue a bit too much.
Just try the following:
Get any 24bit audio source and amplify it up or down by 80db (yes eighty) up or down (it won't clip). Now reverse the amplification in the other direction and paste the result inverted over your original audio. It will probably produce silence, and if not the noise floor is going to be at something like -150 dbfs. I can live with that! :)
Now, I do agree about 16 bit though. Never ever record or process in 16 bit!