Sorry to dredge this up again, but I have another question in this realm, and need IMMEDIATE assistance as I have a due date tomorrow with a mastering engineer. Any help would be so very very greatly appreciated. In regards to individual track volume, I started wondering about when I turn an individual track fader up well above 0 to set it in proper relation to the rest of the mix. In one instance, in Cubase, I had a track turned up as high as the fader would go, which is 6.02. Now, the track is not technically clipping by any means, however, I had a sudden paranoid thought that the fader turned that high could potentially clip somehow on the wave graphic if I had added gain through the processing option rather than turning up the fader. To test my paranoid hypothesis, I added 6.02 to the existing single track waveform and, sure enough, in the loudest places, it appears as clipping on the wave graphic. I of course undid this as it was only a test. But this has me especially paranoid now. The wave graphic is only a graphic right? So long as the numbers of the track are not clipping? To be clear, the graphic itself is not clipping, but I fear that the wave with the track fader turned up to 6.02 could potentially clip the single track somehow as it appears to when added via the separate gain, even though it is not clipping according to the numerical level, which peaks at -1.5 while the rest of the track is much lower than that. The single track is the primary track of the song, which is why it is so loud as an individual track.
I am just being paranoid right? The graphic means little compared to the numbers right? There's nothing wrong with cranking the individual fader if nothing is clipping numbers wise......right? Does the master fader work as an all things in one group bus, therefore making such worries obsolete? Please weigh in ASAP, I am in a big hurry, and will be much more so if I have to go back and check every song for such things. THANKS SO MUCH!