Do You Leave Enough Head Room in Your Mixes?

➡️➡️Learn more about leaving enough head room in your mixes here: Today’s featured question is: what are some definitive ways of making sure there is enough head room left in your mixes? Gain Staging Gain staging inside of a mix is different in a DAW than it is in a console. In a console, you have line inputs and actual gain controls, and then you have a fader. If you’ve recorded in your DAW and it’s something like ProTools for example, there is no independent gain controls, you can of course put a trim on there and control it. but the reality is that most people opt for the fader. That is where you would start balancing your mix and making sure you’re leaving enough head room. Clipping Plugins You want to avoid clipping one plugin into another. In the early days of plugins, you would clip a plugin but the output would be turned down so you wouldn’t look at the indicator of the input going into it. You want to make sure that you