<html><body class="ApplePlainTextBody" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hello Ardour-users!<br><br>I have a region that starts with very soft music and moves on to a region of medium volume with lots of loud clapping. I normalized the region according to the quiet section by shortening it to the quiet section and then normalizing, and finally expanding it to full length. The whole region, including loud parts, was therefore normalized as if it only contained quiet parts.<br><br>Now I have a region looks like its intensely clipped, to alleviate the effect of the clipping, I automated the gain way down. When I play it back, it sounds ok to my untrained ears, but I can't escape the feeling that even though the meters arent peaking except for on the claps (which I'm fine with) the sound will come out badly in the final mix. Are my fears unfounded?<br><br>Thanks for reading!<br><br>Ben Powers<br>bennyp@out-of-order.ca<br>http://www.out-of-order.ca<br><br><br></body></html>