Scott just answered that. As I was writing these posts something didn't sound right and this is it, it's not limiting, it's normalizing. Thanks Scott. Just switch those two words. My main point hasn't changed and now when I search mixing articles using the keywoard "normalizing" I'm getting lots of hits all saying versions of this:

Normalizing
Do not use any kind of normalizing on your mixdown.
 Normalizing raises the signal level in an unnecessary fashion, and it will change the
amount of headroom left in the mix. The final volume level of the mix will be optimized by
me.

That's what I was missing. I'm not going to bother posting the full link, they all say the same thing. Pro's don't normalize in most cases so my overall point is correct.

Bob

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