diff --git a/utilities/add_stereo_delay.ffmpeg b/utilities/add_stereo_delay.ffmpeg
index c00291d..f6ef905 100755
--- a/utilities/add_stereo_delay.ffmpeg
+++ b/utilities/add_stereo_delay.ffmpeg
@@ -7,7 +7,8 @@ do
 	outname0=${file%.*}_panned.wav
 	outname1=${file%.*}_panned.mp3
 	echo $right_sound $left_sound $outname
-	echo "ffmpeg -i $file -af pan='stereo|c0=$right_sound*c0|c1=${left_sound}*c0' $outname0" >> runit.bash
+	echo "ffmpeg-normalize -t -20.2 -c:a pcm_u8 $file -o normalized/$file" >> runit.bash
+	echo "ffmpeg -i normalized/$file -af pan='stereo|c0=$right_sound*c0|c1=${left_sound}*c0' $outname0" >> runit.bash
 	echo "ffmpeg -i $outname0 -codec:a libmp3lame -qscale:a 2 $outname1" >> runit.bash 
 done
 
diff --git a/utilities/createSoundArrays.bash b/utilities/createSoundArrays.bash
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
index fbd7f21..f27774a
--- a/utilities/createSoundArrays.bash
+++ b/utilities/createSoundArrays.bash
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 #! /bin/bash
+#searches the sounds directory for files matching [0-9][0-9]_*.mp3 and 
+#writes then out as a javascript array that can be prepended to sounds.js
 
 lastSound=$(ls sounds/[0-9][0-9]_*.mp3 | sort -g | tail -n 1)
 lastSound=$(basename $lastSound)