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I often find myself listening to a mastered version of my tracks and thinking "that sounded decent in the final mix, but my multiband compression (or excitation or stereo with adjustment or EQ tweak) has actually made an instrument sound relatively louder." And so I go back to my mix project and...

All the advice I've read suggests that for mastering purposes there should be at least 6dB, sometimes even 10dB, headroom in the track being mastered. As a relative novice, this puzzles me. It generally means that I am cranking up the threshold on the loudness maximizer stage by a large amount...