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Originally Posted by Lagerfeldt  In a floating point system like Logic Pro it does not matter if you output too loud to the master bus and then lower it - as long as you do not have plug-ins inserted on the master bus. At least not fixed point plug-ins or dynamic ones that do not have a floating point attenuation option on the input. |
While this may be true in this particular case, I would not advise it for this reason - I think that a lot of the reason that digital music sound so brittle is because of massive mix build up. I would strongly advise anyone using any DAW to treat it exactly like an analog console - set your master fader to 0dB and never move it off that point, and use your channel faders to build a mix to sit under that point.
So often I see people mixing on DAW's with screaming hot channel levels, and a master fader pulled right down to compensate. People record too hot and mix too hot on DAW's, and use the master fader as a attenuator to pull the whole transient clipped mess down to a listenable level.
In a nutshell, what I am suggesting is that the art of gain staging is just a important in a DAW as it is in an analog studio.