Kissing the red zone during pre-master mixing?

[dkamm101]

Hey Guys,

I have all my levels below -6db right now during my last moments of mixdown. Only a couple of times during the mix is it kissing the red zone. I recently purchased the Ozone Mastering Suite from Izotope and want to have a go to deliver a final mix. I am however a little confused because my track is nowhere near the volume of my reference track and I am already piercing the red. Im thinking I need to get into the mix more and EQ/Limiter certain areas? I love the way my mix is sounding through my DAC1 and Sennheiser 800HDs, but then again this is what I have in lieu of monitor speakers b/c Im mobile right now, thoughts?

gracias

DK

[Tarekith]

Mastering, it's what makes up that final volume difference you're experiencing:

http://tarekith.com/assets/mastering.html

[jpga]

Hi.
Try the utility on the master chanel go -6 on the gain and render the track befor you master it!
Good luck.

Jp

[ark]

Ableton does its internal audio computations in floating-point, and gives you 60 (not 6) dB of headroom in its internal channels. So it doesn't matter if individual tracks go into the red; it's just the final poutput level that matters.

[justchris86]

Ableton does its internal audio computations in floating-point, and gives you 60 (not 6) dB of headroom in its internal channels. So it doesn't matter if individual tracks go into the red; it's just the final poutput level that matters.

I love ableton for that! Screw you digital distortion!:)
Every track i make has everything in the red but when it gets to the master throw a mastering audio effect rack on it and your master should end up ion the green

[dkamm101]

thanks boys! HUGE