On Oct 2, 2006, at 6:36 AM, Peter Ostry wrote: > On 01.10.2006, at 22:48, Pete Thomas wrote: > >> I used to leave 2 -3 dB, but the mastering engineer I use now says >> not >> to bother. > > I can think of two reasons: > He finally got a compressor ;-) You mean he finally got an input gain knob? I have always found it totally nonsensical when people say you have to leave XX amount of head room for the mastering guy. He can turn up or down the input to his processors just like anybody else.