Updated October 2026
Normalisation changes the level of a whole file by one amount. Peak normalisation sets the loudest peak to a level. Loudness normalisation sets the average loudness to a target, which is closer to how loud a file feels.
Normalising raises or lowers a file by one amount so that a chosen measure reaches a target. The shape of the sound is unchanged; only the level moves.
Peak normalisation looks at the highest sample. Loudness normalisation looks at the average over time. Two files normalised to the same peak can feel very different in loudness.
For a final level, loudness. For a check that nothing will clip, the true peak. The normalising how-to has the steps.
Tunedzy matches a file to a loudness target and checks the true peak before export.
No. It changes the level only.
Not wrong, but it does not measure how loud a file feels.
After. Clean first, then set the level.
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