thatmeekskid
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I've been producing for a little while and i'm always having problems with my mixes. Now when I looked into gain staging prevously, what I learned was that you want to have everything set to around -10 db so you don't use all your headroom. I took that that mean that I should set the faders on everything track/channel to -10 as the loudest point and then mix form there without ever having a fader go above -10. Then once u have done that and you have arranged your song; you mix so that nothing peaks above -3 to -6 db. So that you can master whether by mastering engineer or if you want to do the mastering yourself. However doing this I found i still have problems with my mix downs.
So my question are, am I wrong to set the faders on each the track to -10?
Should I instead leave the faders at 0 and then just make sure the instruments and plugins within a track itself don't go over -10, and the then use the faders on the each track to then mix to between -3 to -6 for mastering.
( I trying out both ways at the moment, but I still wanted to here what others have to say on the subject)
So my question are, am I wrong to set the faders on each the track to -10?
Should I instead leave the faders at 0 and then just make sure the instruments and plugins within a track itself don't go over -10, and the then use the faders on the each track to then mix to between -3 to -6 for mastering.
( I trying out both ways at the moment, but I still wanted to here what others have to say on the subject)