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most analog gear was meant to operate optimally at 0vu. To me pushing harder than that will result of mushiness as subtley distorted tracks are piled on top of each other. with the abscence of vu meters in todays digital gear it;'s not unusual to see some kid recording elec gtr tracks at around -2 dbfs thinking he's doing great by staying outta the red, but in fact he's cutting a distorted track at like +6 vu...
so, i still use vu meters. outta pro tools into the board. that way i can really see what's going on. peak indicators like the worthless meters in pro tools don't tell you a thing. my ears tell me when i'm clipping most of the time. Usually I glance at the peak meter to check if i'm safe and then off i go. if you cut using 0vu as your reference, you'll end up fine. Be careful on real transient loaded stuff like drums of course. your mixes will end up sounding so much better.
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