How to Get a Perfect -6 dB Mixdown With Gain Staging

✅ Try All our Courses for FREE: ✅ Get the Template More: Download the Free Template (Live 9 & 10 Logic): Free Course on Ableton Live 10: Free Course on XFer Serum: 6 Tips for Exporting Your Song for Mastering: Skip to Somethin’ 0:00 Intro 0:23 Why you need 6 dB of headroom 1:20 Intro to my mixing template 2:00 How to gain stage 3:03 Custom gain staging & mixing Audio Effect Rack 4:15 How to get -6 dBFS peak level 4:43 How to set your kick level, & mix around that 5:55 How to view clipping and fix your mixdowns 6:58 Outro In this video I want to share some workflow tips on gain staging and how to get a mixdown that’s perfectly dialed to send in for mastering. Mastering engineers will typically ask you to render your mixdown so that it peaks at -6dBFS. Pretty much all mastering engineers use this as a standard because it gives them some room to work with. But how do you mix so that everything sums up to perfectly to -6? Easier said than done. So, I’ve got a workflow and a couple of simple techniques I want to show you that’ll help you nail this every time. I’m going to show you my personal mixing template and walk you my process step by step. #gainstaging #mixingtutorial #premaster