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Where Headroom Actually Lives in a Mix
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Gain staging is mostly about keeping each signal in the range where your gear and plug-ins behave predictably — not about hitting one magic number. Here's how nominal and peak levels differ, and why trimming before compression changes everything downstream.
Gain staging isn't a rule you obey once and forget. It's the practice of deciding, track by track, where the signal is loudest before it hits anything that can distort — a preamp, a compressor, a plugin input, your stereo bus. Imagine a vocalist who peaks at 18 dBFS going into a compressor. The comp
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