Headroom, Gain Staging & Clipping in 32 Bit Digital Audio [Mixing Tutorial]

✅ Try All our Courses for FREE: https://warpacademy.com/free-trial-2 ✅ Free Ableton Live 10 & 11 Mixing Template: https://warpacademy.com/free-stuff-bundle Skip to somethin: 0:00 Intro 1:44 Do you need 6 dB of headroom? 2:29 Where the -6 dBFS target came from 3:54 Why some experts are saying to leave headroom in your mix & pre-master 4:30 Recommended plugin input levels 5:26 Doing a reference test master 6:04 Can plugins on your tracks, busses or your master safely handle signals above 0 dB without causing problems? 7:13 How to test plugins for input levels & clipping behavior 10:28 How to gain stage properly in chains of plugins 11:34 Seeing as modern DAWs are using 32 bit floating point processing, does it even matter if you clip your master? 12:23 Analyzing clipped audio exports in 32 bit floating point & 24 bit fixed point 13:34 2 reasons to leave headroom in 32 bit digital audio 14:19 Is clipping really that bad? And do you need to avoid it at all costs? 16:15 Summary & outro #gainstaging #headroom #premaster