diff --git a/src/include/switch_utils.h b/src/include/switch_utils.h
index 70303a25e1..9ea7dcc693 100644
--- a/src/include/switch_utils.h
+++ b/src/include/switch_utils.h
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ SWITCH_DECLARE(int) switch_isxdigit(int c);
 #define switch_samples_per_packet(rate, interval) ((uint32_t)((float)rate / (1000.0f / (float)interval)))
 #define SWITCH_SMAX 32767
 #define SWITCH_SMIN -32768
-#define switch_normalize_to_16bit(n) if (n > SWITCH_SMAX) n = SWITCH_SMAX / 2; else if (n < SWITCH_SMIN) n = SWITCH_SMIN / 2;
+#define switch_normalize_to_16bit(n) if (n > SWITCH_SMAX) n = SWITCH_SMAX; else if (n < SWITCH_SMIN) n = SWITCH_SMIN;
 #define switch_codec2str(codec,buf,len) snprintf(buf, len, "%s@%uh@%ui", \
                                                  codec->implementation->iananame, \
                                                  codec->implementation->samples_per_second, \