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That result is expected, since you're messing with the gain staging at multiple points in your Mixer. I have no idea why you're taking steps 1, 2, 3 and 4. What are you trying to achieve? Is there an issue you're trying to solve? There's no reason to mess with your gain staging unless you're having a specific issue, but you haven't described one. +1. Either you use Ozone, or you use a mastering engineer - not both. Ozone is used as mix buss compressor and eq, not as full mastering tool, I could be using an API 2500 or any other compressor, that's why the engineer (and he's very reputable and well known, that's why I'm not naming names) preferred the track with it. Anyway to answer David's question, I finished my mix and need to drop 4dB, I read your posts about adding the Gain plugin to each track but I'm not happy with the result because it's quite off. I don't use all 4 steps together, I tried each one independently. Thanks

With Ozone off I'm at -6 but when I sent the tracks out for mastering in the past I was asked to leave Ozone on rather than send the track dry. ( i was using Ozone as a reference of what I was trying to achieve) I think the engineer felt there was enough headroom in the previous tracks I don't know. Hi Benco, thanks for the reply, my bus are for reverb only so no compression there. I've read in the other threads that the correct procedure was to put a gain insert in each track and not in the master. I'm going to try to put a gain plugin on the master and let you know how it sounds! Thanks!

Hi guys, I've been reading other threads about gain stage and the Logic Gain Plugin utility but still seem to get different results. I have 2 tracks that are at -0.2 at the output but I need to get them to -3 or -4 before sending out for mastering, I have tried: 1) Gain plugin on each audio track set to -5 (i understand this is the correct step) 2) Lower -5 on each track fader 3) Gain plugin on output before Izotope Ozone 4) Lower Output fader It doesn't matter what I try, the resulting audio track sounds different from the original one, I load both tracks on a new Logic project, lower the original track with the Gain Plugin to match the level of the second one and then flip phase on the second track to see if they cancel each other and they don't. All the tracks have their own plugins like compressors or eq and the output track has the Ozone plugin. What do you guys think?