Stuck with a clipping track...

[TimC340]

Mixing into a limiter is a valid technique, and it's one that the guys at Mastering.com actively teach - partly to avoid this issue of the transfer of a 'hot' mix from the digital to the analogue regime when auditioning pre-mastering.

It's worth studying the science of metering to help understand how it's measured and what it's measuring. It isn't a difficult concept, but it can be confusing in practise.

 

[Sebastian Holtzer]

Mixing into a limiter is a valid technique, and it's one that the guys at Matering.com actively teach - partly to avoid this issue of the transfer of a 'hot' mix from the digital to the analogue regime when auditioning pre-mastering.

It's worth studying the science of metering to help understand how it's measured and what it's measuring. It isn't a difficult concept, but it can be confusing in practise.

But isn't the K-Metering a good method/help to prevent that? I mean does mixing into a limiter on the main out not change the whole mix a bit?

 

[TimC340]

Their justification is partly avoiding the hot mix issue, but it's also so that you can judge roughly how your mix is going to sound when mastered - and acknowledges the reality that most recorded material is likely to be mastered by the artist these days.

Any modern music is going to go into a brickwall limiter in mastering. Any effect that has on your sound needs to be taken into account before you get to that point, particularly if it's going to be mastered by a third party. You might as well hear it before it's irrecoverable!