What is normalization?
Also called: audio levelling, loudness normalization
Definition
Normalization adjusts the volume of a recording to a consistent target level.
Voices recorded too quietly are brought up and those recorded too loudly are brought down, so viewers do not reach for the volume control between videos.
It is different from compression, which reduces the gap between the loud and quiet parts within one recording. Normalization moves the whole recording up or down to a target, and is usually the last step before export.
In Sceed
Sceed levels the microphone track automatically.
Related terms
- Noise gate
- A noise gate silences an audio signal whenever it falls below a set volume, removing background noise between words.
- Audio track
- An audio track is one stream of sound in a recording, such as the microphone or the computer’s sound, that can be adjusted separately from the others.