| Basically, my point is this:
Regardless of floating point headroom, the digital mix bus in your daw cannot output a finished file with levels above 0dbfs. this means that if you are running at excessive levels at one stage of the signal path, it is inevitable that you will need to attenuate the signal at some point down the line. Why allow excessive levels at one stage and then need to bring it down at another?
I like to keep all points in the chain operating at optimal levels. This begins with tracking at moderate levels (peaking between -10 and -6 db for most sources), bringing down unruly plugins (like battery) that generate too much level. If you do this you will never need to be concerned with internal clipping of plugins, nor will you need to lower your master in order to output a clean 2mix.
Simple really.
-Z- |