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Vinyl does compress a bit.
The best advice I can offer is:
1. Be absolutely anal-retentive about panning the lead vocal, bass, bass drum and snare dead center to within .1 dB. This will clean up a lot of tracking problems and allow hotter levels to be cut.
2. Too much peak limiting can cost you a lot of both actual and perceived volume. Vinyl levels are not linear with frequency so flat-topping buys nothing but reduced peak levels and could cause distortion that forces the average level to be even lower.
3. Don't depend on anything below 50 Hz. to fulfill a musical purpose. A good trick is to check with a 70 Hz. high pass filter in addition to checking mono. You don't have to cut off the low-end but a mix that doesn't cut it when high-passed is likely to cause big problems.
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