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Okay, thanks. So amplify is better than normalization in this case?

Great, thanks a lot! Didn't knew it was that simple What's the difference then between this (amplify) and normalization?

I going to send WAVfiles to a mastering engineer in a couple of weeks and he prefers 24 bit WAV but I have to leave around -3db to -5db of headroom and ensure there is no limiting / compression on the final mix bus. How do I do this with Audacity?

These WAV files are for an album (cd and digital).

I want to send my tracks in WAV-files for mastering and have to leave around -3db to -5db of headroom but how does this work? Do I have to change the individual tracks from a WAV-file or the whole file? Where is the function to leave around -3db to -5db of headroom? I heard normalize doesn't work an...