While working on this (updating the docs and preparing a proposal for the Wiki) I had occasion to re-visit 1.2 Audacity. I note that in 1.2 Dominic Mazzoni (one of the originators of Audacity) had the Normalization level hard-wired to -3dB - there was no opportunity to change that. It was only with 1.3 that variable level normalization was introduced.steve wrote:Shaky wrote: ... there are strongly held opinions about how much (if any) headroom is given to the final mix.
So way back then he was setting a headroom level - interesting.
WC