Normalizing sample?

Personally I normalize but depending on how loud the sample is I go for around -2 to -1. -1 usually always works for me.
 
normalising is about changing the relative amplitude of a sample in relation to 0dbfs.

Pushing a sample so that it is normalised to -1dbfs is not going to give you much room to play with it when creating and subsequently mixing.

In most cases you want to normalise to either -3dbfs or -6dbfs; -3dbfs if you are only going to use without creatively altering it, -6dbfs if you intend to mash-it-up somehow.
 
Back
Top