Hi Kevin,

Referring to your quote:

"My take: You use some kind of compression/limiter to make things loud at the end. If everything is too hot, then the "brick wall" limiter does all the work and everything gets squashed and you lose dynamics and clarity."

Your knowledge isn't 0db at all, from eveything I have read and studied, you have it right.

If the wav is already filling the entire window, you have no more room to add effects and the mastering engineers are not going to like it. They have nothing to work they magic on. Pulling faders up or down doesn't alter the wav itself, it doesn't give you more headroom (as referred to in the article),it only the changes the volume.

At least that's my understanding of it all.

yjoh

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