Should you master track ever be clipping before mastering? Because even when all of my individual channels in the project are not clipping and have a fair bit of headroom my master says it is clipping? is this normal, i know that once you apply a limiter the clipping will not be happening anymore but im just wondering whether you should be experiencing any clipping before you hit the limiter, any help will be appreciated
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oroinvictus
dangert billy
cvdpoel
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Oh dear... im not sure how everyone acheives such low volume on all of the tracks while still keeping loudness
cvdpoel
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If your tracks aren't clipping but your master is, it could either be from how loud you have the faders or if you use a lot of gain in your plugins. Loudness shouldn't be achieved from mixing, but from mastering.
I turned the gain down on my slate drums in kontakt from 0db to -6, this seemed to solve the problem and anyway when i load my sturgis cymbals into kontakt he seems to have already set them at -6. it seems to give them headroom?
oroinvictus
dangert billy
I get all my tracks peaking at around -6 before mastering. That should give you plenty of headroom.
cvdpoel
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Do some research on digital summing. This may help you understand how to achieve better gain structure
