and Mr Lyann Music, u won't have to put your fader at -6dB. you won't need that limiter after that, my friend. Gain staging & understanding unity gain is the foundation. I know everyone has their own methods for this art, but look at it like building a house: the design on the inside may be different from house to house, but NO house can be built properly without a foundation. nowadays, the signal on my master fader doesn't read above -10dB overall volume for mixes, and as i stated above, only thing on my master is the TT Dynamic Range meter. how do i know? cuz i used to do the same thing, bro.LOL. I agree with Evorax: only if you're mixing hot will you need to do the 'limiter on master' thing. If the master fader is on anything but 0db, i'd suggest researching gain staging, and looking into unity gain to get a better understanding. Some guys would vouch for Sonalksis FreeG as a trimm plugin as a first instance in the mastering chain to trimm down the volume before hitting rest of the plugins including the limiter, but i personally don't use it. 'Hot' mixing was available back in the days for 16bit depth recordings but even in that kind of situation, the sound engineer would've make sure he's not clipping at all. In the 24/32bit of bit depth era, there's no need to mix hot. Just turn your monitors louder to compensate the fact that you're mixing on a lower peak level. What that means, is that they don't work in their sweet spot of their processing algorithm and also a bus compressor would struggle too hard to tame everything instead of just gluing subtly with a GR of just 1 or 2db.

If you do load some plugins before the limiter while the limiter already started the gain reduction (against clipping) then i'm sure that all the plugins before the limiter you loaded are internally clipping as well.

If there's no headroom, then there's no room for enhancing your master. The headroom is actually for any mastering processing before the Limiter. If you load a Limiter and the whole song is already clipping like 1 or 2 db, there's absolutely no headroom for extra processing (plugins) before the limiter. Try to never exceed -6 or -5 db on your master bus (as an overall volume for your whole project, not for the instruments particullary). Click to expand.It helps ONLY if you mix too hot.

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