Why Is Headroom So Important?

For those interested here is some of the audio / video equipment that I use

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Orenda Velvet Wurth
Lisamarie Costabile
Jeroen Noordhuis
Mark Storm
Neal Faison
Dave Morrison
Shane Fitzgibbon
Clint Schultz

[aries]

Thanks for this great tip Greg! I've always has the Mix Buss compression engaged while I've been mixing. But I think you make a good point to try to achieve the right balance and headroom, without the compressor engaged in the mix buss. I'll try that going forward.

[seanemmettfullerton]

Yes yes yes! thank you, Greg! very true. Ha! Ironically, the word 'subtle' may be a rather quaint concept for some folks today :) You totally rock, mister!

[nonarecordingstudio]

great tip! i just start to do have clean 2buss and the results after the mastering are amazing!

[rafaelzengo]

I've given up trying to make my stuff sound good on this very basic cheap home setup. Now I'm concentrating on making it sound as shitty as possible

[NN-rsny]

Nothing can stop the laptop sound is like the loudnes war the past 5 years lol

[johnnykaldani]

My amp has a 3dB headroom rating. So, what does this mean and how do I verify this?