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About the dumbest thing you can do is to try and second-guess the mastering engineer when it comes to eqing for vinyl. This is because the proper settings are entirely dependent on the particular cutting system, the program material, the disk speed and the length of the final disk. If you make your mix sound great when you crank it up in the monitors, the chances are the mastering engineer can also make it sound great. When it sounds painful to really turn it up, it's probably not going to sound very good on vinyl. I drop my levels 5 or 6 dB for a CD-R that's going to be used for vinyl because it'll often make the converters used in the mastering room sound a lot ballsier.
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