Sean Conolly wrote:

* Normalize & hard limit (if needed) to the final levels I want for CD. I
hard limit sparingly, just enough to bring up the average level if there's a
few peaks that stand out.
* Convert to 16 bit for burning to CD

Why in the world would you hard limit when moving from a medium with
maybe 50 or 60 dB of dynamic range to one of 96 dB of dynamic range?

Significant peaks probably didn't survive recording to cassette in the
first place.

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