Normalising......Good or bad?

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This is the explanation from the Masterlink Manual about the fuction on the Masterlink DSP- Normalization

DSP4:NORMALIZER
A Normalizer's function is to scan a Track for the highest peak value, determine the ratio between that
peak value and full-scale, and multiply the Track by that ratio so that the highest peak value of the
Track is equal to full-scale.
The major improvement in this normalizer over others is that the gain multiplication is performed in
real time, instead of rendering the normalized file back to disk. This allows re-normalizing if changes to
the Track Gain, Compression, EQ, Limiting and Track Fade blocks occur after the first pass of
normalization.
The normalizer does not have any parameters per se, other than the current gain multiplier (which is
not user set, but is determined from the Track).