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Vinyl levels are limited primarily by the ability of a phono cartridge to track the record. My tips would be:
1. Leave off limiting. The distortion it generates will often cost you more level than limiting the peaks can gain. If there is anything to be gained, the mastering engineer is the only person in a position to know exactly how much limiting to use.
2. Be very careful about accurately centering anything panned to the middle. Mono is your friend when it comes to level.
3. Take great care that nothing below 50Hz. is musically important. In most cases there will be no need to hi-pass your mixes but you can't always count on it.
4. Avoid panning low frequency material to the side
5. Breath pops and sibilance can both force a drop in level. It's better to treat just the vocal track to alleviate these problems than to treat the whole mix.
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