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Originally Posted by jerdude  uh. except that when loudness... in your face compression... is equated with IMPACT. if your mix is peaking at -6db... no mastering engineer is going to be able to get it to commercial level without drastically changing your mix. the drums will be softer... the lead vocal softer... and everything else much louder.
don't worry about mastering... don't worry about where you are peaking... unless you are clipping and you hear unpleasant distortion... which is usually the case when clipping the master buss of a DAW... well.. most DAW's.  if your vibe is audioslave... then mix it loud... if your vibe is alison krauss... mix it soft, warm and intimate.  |
WEll, I guess I should have been more specific. Getting the mix right is more important than getting it loud was my point. "Right" is a sunjective term - I was just saying that if *all* you need is louder, than there are other ways to do that (limiters, or just turning everything up at the end (not that those two are at all the same thing)). My point is that getting the mix right should be a bigger deal than how much head room you have on the master.