As Martynreid mentioned normalising should be avoided as long as possible because it changes the dynamics and causes aliasing and other stuff like that. You avoid normalising best by keeping recording levels suitable all the time. If you have to normalise all the time you should punch yourself and add some gain to your inputs.
If you mix well you don't need to normalise in any stage. Just do multiband and brickwall compression to the final mix and off you go.
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