Normalizing audio erases it (here we go again)

Question

Well, it's been a year since I last posted this, and it's happening again with whatever update has happened recently.

When I try to Normalize an audio file (doesn't matter what kind. A random mp3 or a wav file exported directly from Premier Pro or an aif file recorded on a digital recorder), it 'erases' it. By that I mean, I try to normalize it to -3 or -.1 or -6, using either the Favorites or directly through the Normalize effect, and what comes out after processing is a 100% blank audio. So either it's erasing it or it's normalizing it down to negative infinity...but the result is the same. a completely blank waveform. I can amplify (using the Amplify effect) and that works fine. But I can't normalize it to a specific level.

As I said, this happened a year ago (I did a search on this topic and my post from July 20, 2018 popped up). There was no answer then.

Mac running latest system. Audition build 12.1.1.42

treehorne · Answer

as I mentioned, there was zero response last time so there was no point in dredging up a post from a year ago. And as I've said the only thing I do is normalize the audio. And it goes completely and utterly blank. And nothing plays. it's silent. it either erases it or it lowers it to infinity (can't tell what it's doing but the end result is an absence of any audio)

And it looks like Adobe listened as today's update fixed the bug.

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