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If you're tracking to digital at 24 bit, the dynamic range of the converters is larger than that of your analog gear, so the converters easily "capture" the noise floor of your analog equipment.
There is no reason to "print hot" to 24 bit digital, you're just shooting yourself in the foot. Even if you are only peaking at something like -12 or whatever, you still are well above your analog noise floor.
Printing hotter is dangerous as you may be clipping your converters without even know it (those meters don't move THAT fast) or clipping even the analog electronics in your interface. The first one, especially, is going to destroy your sounds.
Having said all that, sometimes its a compromise. I have so compressors where I like to drive the output pretty hard, so I end up printing kind of hot to disk, I'm still cautious to avoid clips those. I don't want to be anywhere near -0...
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