I put this in the mastering question because the mastering houses would answer this better.
When you're mixing and planning on giving the mixes to a separate mastering house, what effects can you put on the mix bus and what effects should you avoid?
I always thought you try to get the sound as best you can, whether that means putting on eq, compression, multiband stereo width, saturation,... I can see avoiding the limiter, and keeping about 6 dB of head room from the highest peaks, but are all the rest ok to include?
When you're mixing and planning on giving the mixes to a separate mastering house, what effects can you put on the mix bus and what effects should you avoid?
I always thought you try to get the sound as best you can, whether that means putting on eq, compression, multiband stereo width, saturation,... I can see avoiding the limiter, and keeping about 6 dB of head room from the highest peaks, but are all the rest ok to include?