Upfrontiness - An RP visitor's advice

Upfrontiness - An RP visitor's advice
Yes we all seek it in our recordings, that elusive quality of 'upfrontiness'. There's no such thing as an upfrontiness control, so just how is it achieved?
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In digital recording, should you normalize each track? What is normalizing anyway?
It has always been traditional in recording to record at as high a level as possible. If you don't, you are wasting dynamic range. But does normalizing your recordings achieve the same result?
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