> 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. Maybe in old style etiquette, leaving some headroom is a gesture to show you didn't limit or clip your file against 0 db. Of course nowadays you could brickwall limit your mix to -3db, but in theory you're not sending a brickwall-limited mix to a mastering engineer. Right? Right fellas?!