- Hello, I'm Mike Russell
from musicradiocreative.com. In this video, we'll look at
Normalize in Adobe Audition and exactly what it does. (logo whirring) If you're enjoying these
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unconventional music for unconventional listeners. - That's one I created
myself with the voice of Pete from Music Radio Creative. As you can see, it's a
little bit low in the mix. - [Pete] With Rock Radio. - Picking up at minus 10 DB. So Normalize, all it does,
is it takes the audio, takes the maximum of it,
so the peak of the audio, wherever the highest part of the audio is, and it normalizes, it increases
the volume to that point. Let me give you an example. Affects, amplitude and
compression, Normalize. It's very handy if you just want to make quiet audio a bit louder. And you can say normalize
to 70% or 80% or 90%, if you prefer. And if I do that, you'll see,
boom, it's taking up 90% now, - [Pete] With Rock Radio. - It's a lot louder as well. You can also go back into
that effect if you want, under Amplitude and
Compression, Normalize, and you can say normalize to a DB level. So normalize to minus
one DB is a common one, click apply and off it goes,
really, really handy for that. There's lots of other stuff available in the Normalize effect, but basically just make stuff louder without changing the sound of your audio. You've got normalize all channels equally. You want to do that if
you've got stereo audio, and DC bias adjust is pretty handy. If you have audio that
looks like it's not centered on the wave here, if it's like kind of, if the wave form is up here, you'd want to use DC bias adjust, but that's Normalize in a nutshell. There are some great
favorites for Normalize in the favorites menu. I use these all the time. Normalize to minus three DB
or normalize to minus 0.1 DB. I usually use the minus
0.1 DB before I save and send something out so it's maximized, but it's not going above
zero so it's not distorted. And Normalize is really, really handy. Especially if you're working
in Adobe Premiere Pro to make audio the loudest it can be. So you can then go ahead
and put effects on, particularly when you're
working in multi-track, then you want effects to
have an effect or impact on your dialogue. Normalize it first before
putting it in multi-track. And if you want to learn more
about how to do all of this cool stuff, go and check out my courses. I've got audio production courses, podcast production course, a
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