If you want a number of clips to have the same maximum peak value select each clip individually, one at a time, and normalise each clip individually to the same target value. A slow job if there's a lot of clips but the only way to get them all to the same peak value using normalising.

slartabartfast
Another question. Where in the signal chain is the normalization applied? If different clips are routed through effects or busses/patch points that may involve some gain adjustments is the normalization applied pre or post? If any of the intervening effects are using a gain adjustment with a different algorithm than the overall normalization that could cause unexpected results.

 
That's a very good point to check for. But, as Sander alluded to, it was applied directly to the raw recording's clips in the source track, with no busses, patches, or effects in the signal chain.
 
 

tlw
If you want a number of clips to have the same maximum peak value select each clip individually, one at a time, and normalise each clip individually to the same target value. A slow job if there's a lot of clips but the only way to get them all to the same peak value using normalising.

 
Thanks, Tim. But that's not what I'm trying to do. All I was attempting was to lower all of the track's audio down uniformly so that the highest peak of the entire track meets the desired value (i.e., basic normalization, as I understand it).

Sorry to sidestep the question but I would recommend forgetting normalisation and just use Clip Gain to get things sounding broadly the same. Normalise has to work with the peaks and they are rarely the most important gauge of how loud the clip as a whole is.

Kylotan
Sorry to sidestep the question but I would recommend forgetting normalisation and just use Clip Gain to get things sounding broadly the same. Normalise has to work with the peaks and they are rarely the most important gauge of how loud the clip as a whole is.

This.

IIRC you can jump directly to a peak. Check out how high it is and then use Process/Apply Effect/Gain to increase or decrease all clips by the same amount. That's the quickest way I can think of that would keep your separate clips intact yet would change gain uniformly to hit a specified single peak. 

I think Sanderxpander has it. Just see how much attenuation is needed for the loudest track, select all tracks, and adjust down by that amount. Otherwise "normalizing" doesn't really have any meaning "across tracks." Normalizing multiple tracks just calls for a batch normalization of each track, and they don't all need to be normalized by the same amount.