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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.



I hate to keep disagreeing with people, but this isn't strictly true. (Or even at all.)

Suppose the mastering engineer is sent a wav file with very little dynamic range and the recording normalised (maxed out). Because this is digital, the first thing he does is make a safety copy to work on. He then performs a gain change down a few db to create headroom without effecting the original mix in any other way. He is then free to work on the track in whatever way he sees fit, including increasing the dynamic range by use of an expander. When he's finished, he can bring the whole mix back up to max. Job done.

ROG.



But I bet he (or she) wouldn't be a very happy mastering engineer (unless he got to charge a lot for his services). Fixing a bad mix, while in the realm of a mastering engineer, is probably the last thing he would want to do to try and make it sound as good as possible.

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