@bitflipper
>>Easy solution for that one: solo the track and export the "entire mix".

Thanks! I have spent an evening trying out various combinations of settings in the exporter and trying to figure out the effect. Anything but intuitive. I didn't hit on that combination.

>>Meanwhile, I've been sitting here normalizing clips to various values and it's consistently performed exactly as expected. I wonder if maybe you've occasionally had more than one clip selected before normalizing.

I don't think so. But even so, shouldn't that just normalize both to their individual peaks, rather then the peak of the "loudest" clip?