Sound processing - midenok/hardware GitHub Wiki
http://www.gearslutz.com/board/mastering-forum/630709-compression-vs-normalization.html
The bad reputation of the Normalization process I think it comes from the 16 bit recording era, where recording the closest to 0 dBFS was mandatory to preserve the 96 dB dynamic range. For example, if you record at -18dBFS in 16 bit you have a 13 bit sound quality. If you apply Normalization to this file you will have noise problems. Now with 24 bit files you can record safely at -18 dBFS, because you will have at least 126 dB of dynamic range. So it will be not a problem to normalize 24 bit files.