William and Gayle Cook Music Library – IUB
Normalizing a sound file in Audacity
LOCATED in the Dock: Multimedia >AudacityAdditional Help
Look at the online help option in the help menu wthin Audacity.
Normalizing a sound file in Audacity
Recommended for:
-Normalizing a soundfile expands the waveform to its maxmium, before any clipping will occur. Naturally, normalizing a sound file containing much background noise increases that noise along with everything else. So clean samples are preferable for Normalization: if too much noise is present, various filtering techniques can be used before normalizing.
1. Open Audacity and open the soundfile.Select the region you wish to normalize (or Apple key-A to select all).
2. Under the Effect menu, choose the Normalize... option.
In the following dilogue box, make sure the options 'Remove and DSP Offset' and 'Normalize maximum amplitutde to -3db' are both checked.
