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Reference a track you feel sounds perfect, in whatever speakers / headphones, and compare it with your own mix.
A plugin, or insert on your Master bus should be not altering the mix by enough to be noticeable, the process cannot perform miracles.
We all now have the ability to get closer to perfection, lets not lose the benefits a good mastering engineer can add to our stuff.
Virtual studios can be fun, to allow us to hear alternative versions of the final product, but attempting to rely on them as a way to finalise a project will be on a par with using a preset in Izotope, if that is the sound you want, go with it, but lets not pretend it will be the same.
Aim for a mastered track to be -14, -12, or push it to be -6 LUFS, and move on. Experience will get you to the number you want, let the streaming services do what they do - it will change, will you re-mix everything to suit?, I doubt it, you'll be doing something else.
Don't forget to bypass your plugins for the final render, I have done it myself. Still waiting for FGX2.
I'm actually auditioning the Trinnov system right now, which is AAAA-MAZING.
Expensive though.
I can't think of a situation where I'd want to model another room.
I don't really rate Sonarworks myself- I have it, I have used it but it is a bit of a blunt instrument.
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1) Is the master limiting plugin output set to below 0dB?
2) Are the metering plugins (after the master limiter) showing a level below 0dB?
3) Is the fader on the Master track set at 0dB?
4) Are the various meters set to show peak levels?
If the above are true, I would expect the level displayed on the master track to be the same as the level displayed on the metering plugins.
I don't know anyone working as a mixer (including myself) who uses them.
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If it is pre some analysis, the output will be showing some form of inaccuracy of either the limiter, or the analysis, Id trust FF in that case. Any clipping that is occurring must be from an outside source, maybe there is something running in parallel, which has gone un-noticed.
These things are pretty accurate, but may not be calibrated to the same signal?
I often forget to turn off constant gain monitoring in FGX, when I render, it is always obvious, nothing should go above 0db.
2) Yes, the metering plugins are below 0db
3) Master track fader is 0db
4) I think so - I haven't changed anything here
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...and is the the Master track and your audio interface still showing levels above 0dB?
If so, as @andy_k said, maybe you have something running in parallel to the output.
Do you get silence if you mute the master track? If not this would indicate that one or more of your tracks might be routed directly to your audio output.
Control those, and you'll be able to push your limiters a bit further.
Also don't expect one instance to do the same thing as multiple instances, all set with slightly tamer settings. It's a different thing.
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