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There's a key word here: "Low." -20dBFS(RMS) is NOT "low." It's VERY normal. Peaks below -10dBFS are not low - They're NORMAL.
10 or 12dB of headroom is NOTHING in the grand scheme - Certainly not a a single track - Personally, it's rare that I'll have an entire mix that peaks above -10. Very rare. I'd MUCH rather add 10dB of clean, digital gain to a 'normal' mix than have even a remote chance of overdriving my input chain.
If you were to record every single track peaking at -12dBFS, you'd *still* have to *attenuate* tracks to mix without clipping. Wouldn't you rather just run your input chain as it was designed to run?
10 or 12dB of headroom is NOTHING in the grand scheme - Certainly not a a single track - Personally, it's rare that I'll have an entire mix that peaks above -10. Very rare. I'd MUCH rather add 10dB of clean, digital gain to a 'normal' mix than have even a remote chance of overdriving my input chain.
If you were to record every single track peaking at -12dBFS, you'd *still* have to *attenuate* tracks to mix without clipping. Wouldn't you rather just run your input chain as it was designed to run?
