Compression vs Normalization: What’s the Difference?

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[dandanliu]

I feel like you are santa clause who just answered my wish list by making a video to answer my question. I understand the difference now. Seriously, thank you so much!

[GoodOlTahj]

Great video as always, Joe

I always learn something related to issues I come across in my own recordings, so thank you very much for the quality info.

[gutpileman]

This really helped to clear things up for me. Thanks Joe🤘🤘

[leenabel]

Thanks for this clear explanation between the two. It makes sense to me now! I appreciate your taking the time to post, Joe.

[BharathRamMS]

Wow! What a clear and concise explanation! Loved it.

[GraveyardAngelOfficial]

This was an exact answer to what I was wondering about, thank you for the great explanation, Joe.

[Psych_Explained]

Hi Joe, I appreciate your video - great presentation style, easy to follow and listen to; I'm just learning to use normalization and compression in audacity so this video was a good start for me. Cheers!

[YASIR.K]

Love you and love your channel ... Thanks, Joe 🍻

[unrealrox]

the best explanation ever! thank you and regards from Argentina.

[BukanIbuMu]

Stay awesome, Joe!
-One of your long time subscriber

[liquidsolids]

Thanks for the simple explanation, Joe!

[nostalgicselectives]

For the longest time I thought that Normalization would be a type of Compression Tool or would ultimately change audio it in a way that would mess dynamics or every aspect of what's been originally recorded. I was afraid to use it because I didn't want to mess up the track that way. For example, I love to rip vinyl and I want to keep the exact state the audio is recorded in terms of dynamics because that's one of the reasons why I like vinyl. From what I understand Normalization keeps the dynamics or another way to understand that in a track it has its levels for each samples, instrument depending what is set before exporting, mastering etc. It leaves those dynamics alone and actually lifts all together only the volume of everything in that track thus keeping dynamics. Hopefully I've understood that correctly and if not I'd like more input on this if I'm misunderstood. Thanks for the video Joe :)

[Thatsmessedupman]

Which is best to do when you have tracks from various sources, all different levels and want to have them all around the same level. Each track has their own issues with their highs and lows .So I want to be sure the highs dont cause distortion but also dont want the lows to be too faint. I thought normalization is the key but it seems it might only solve the clipping aspect.

[andrewjacobs]

Oh wow... I was about to say Thanks creepy YT a.i. for this vid as I've been searching about Normalizing my tracks but I see this is fresh.

[StoryTime]

What about normalizing after compressing and or treble/bass boost?

[FlotownMastering]

One small detail FWIW: you're describing peak normalization which is related to, but different than, loudness normalization (commonly used by streaming services). The more you know :)

[bigxrecords]

I only normalize all my audio if I’m working with a 2 track beat with vocals on top I feel that saves me soo much time

[WarrenWatsonActor]

How do you feel about normalization vs compression when it comes to voiceovers?

[dhanvimehta]

This is an insightful video! well done! i had a question, i have an audio whose first half has very very low volume, and the second half has a high volume, i want to make the first half and second half balanced as i have to sing on it. Any help would be appreciated! I am using Audacity for editing. Thanks a lot!

[thamilanban]

Hi Joe, could you please do us a video how to do upward compression in Studio One? Thank you.