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Originally Posted by Ghostwheel  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! |
False. If you trim 80db off of 24-bit fixed point audio, save to a 24-bit file, and then add 80db of gain, you have only 144 - 80 = 64db of dynamic range left. Your audio is then only effectively 10.7bit, and you will have a similar noise floor to cassette tape.
You should know that posting in a mastering forum.