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Normalising
Normalising changes the overall level of an audio file in relation to its highest peak.
Also called: Normalisation
Level relevance: introduced at Nat 3; tagged for every later level where the same concept remains useful.
Explanation
Normalising can make audio easier to work with, but it does not replace good recording level, balance, compression, or final mixing decisions.
Topics
EditingLevelsProcessing
Curriculum statusofficial concept
Review statusdraft
Sources
- National 5 Music Technology course specification, May 2023, version 3.0 · accessed 2026-07-08
Used for the National 3, National 4, and National 5 technology and music concept tables.