>amount of adjusting with the normalization?


True. It's not often obvious. The reason that I mentioned it is that when the topic of mastering is brought up, cats start to talk about normalizing as if this is a fundamental part of mastering (you didn't, I know). Considering the detrimental effects it has, I fail to see why. Mastering is about changing the dynamics (and so about the perceived loudness of the final product). When you have a limiter as the final stage of your process there is no need to normalize at all since you can adjust the limiter in such a way that your track peaks at 0 db (or when you want to account for cheap cd players: -0.1 to -0.3 db).

Peace,
Merlin.

Fresh in 2011:
http://www.aerialnoise.com/2011/04/13/classic-brothers-–-munchies-rimer-london-remix-magnetron-music/