Can you have to much headroom?

[tentimesover]

I've been trying to leave way more headroom while mixing lately because I used to just crank the hell out of everything and mix it till it sounded good in my head.

I did this sample song and I'm wondering if this has TO MUCH headroom? I use TT_Dynamic Range meter to measure this but I'm not 100% confident in what I'm looking for.

Thoughts?

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4206515/PVheadroomtest.mp3

 

[colonel kurtz]

this post is like asking if your g/f sucks your dick too much

you already know the answer...

 

[raybrochill]

this post is like asking if your g/f sucks your dick too much

you already know the answer...

well played, sir

 

[AudioPhile777]

this post is like asking if your g/f sucks your dick too much

you already know the answer...

Well, the answer to that is yes, at least for me... 5 is my limit, based on my experience. Any more and it loses it awesomeness...

The answer to his question as it pertains to audio is "No".

 

[RiF]

Assuming that we're talking about digital in-the-box mixes.
Further, I assume we're talking about 24 Bit.
I really see no single benefit in driving digital mixes hard. So keeping A LOT of headroom is the way to go. That doesn't mean that you have to have your track levels at -60 dB, of course ;-). You can always krank the master fader to get up to volume in the end.

BTW, how does headroom and dynamic range correlate? Unless you're clipping into the red (which should be avoided at all cost), I don't see any association.

 

[Torniojaws]

Doesn't headroom mean how far beyond 0 dB the internal non-master channels in the DAW/plugin can go before clipping? In that sense, it has nothing to do with dynamic range, but in another sense, it's akin to extended dynamic range before the master channel. But after the master channel, it provides no extra range.

 

[tentimesover]

this post is like asking if your g/f sucks your dick too much

you already know the answer...

Haha, I hear ya!

I just didn't know if there was a downfall to keeping everything real low in volume. While mixing.

 

[ahjteam]

As long as the ceiling is not too low in your house, does it matter how high the ceiling is?

 

[Terminus]

As long as the ceiling is not too low in your house, does it matter how high the ceiling is?

Well you''d have to buy a 500 foot ladder to change the light bulb. You could build an airplane runway in your house and just fly the bulbs up there, then do some Stephen Seagal shit to somehow attach the bulb in mid-flight. Or maybe get Kurt Russel to do it, he's way better at surviving these types of situations.

Hope that helped.

 

[ahjteam]

Well you''d have to buy a 500 foot ladder to change the light bulb. You could build an airplane runway in your house and just fly the bulbs up there, then do some Stephen Seagal shit to somehow attach the bulb in mid-flight. Or maybe get Kurt Russel to do it, he's way better at surviving these types of situations.

Hope that helped.

 

[AudioPhile777]

Well you''d have to buy a 500 foot ladder to change the light bulb. You could build an airplane runway in your house and just fly the bulbs up there, then do some Stephen Seagal shit to somehow attach the bulb in mid-flight. Or maybe get Kurt Russel to do it, he's way better at surviving these types of situations.

Hope that helped.

Indeed.