Re: when to normalise audio

There are more times when you don't want to normalize.

If all tracks are normalized to, say, hotter than -2 dbfs, you can ovedrive the internal mix buss.

I usually leave individual tracks alone if the peaks are -8 dB or higher. If I don't have my stereo master plugins correctly tweeked (which is seldom) I may normalize the master to -.2 dB .

Regards,

Ty Ford