What is normalization?
Normalization is the process of efficiently organizing data in a database. The goals of the normalization process are : – Eliminate redundant data by storing the same data in more than one table. – Ensure data dependencies by only storing related data in a table. Normalization process reduces the amount of space a database consumes and ensures that data is logically stored. The guidelines for ensuring that databases are normalized are referred to as normal forms.
Normalization essentially means making the audio louder so that you don’t have to turn your player up so much to hear it. This is a different process than compression because it raises the overall volume without artificially scrunching down audio peaks. Normalization helps if a tape has been recorded so softly that you can hardly hear the music or the people talking, or if one track is a lot louder, unintentionally, than the other. Using normalization, the overall sound can be boosted in volume, and/or better balanced for stereo. Here, the entire audio recording is made louder, but only to the point where it can be accomplished without altering the waveform or inducing distortion, where the highest peak in the audio reaches its maximum value (0dB). The dynamic range remains totally intact.
