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In my experience, without using trim plugins, the mix bus will start to clip on 99% of sessions. It also means that you can utilise your entire fader on each channel. In doing this, your mix bus/master fader should have plenty of headroom and shouldn’t clip. So adding trim plugins at the beginning of your insert points, will allow you to attenuate the signals. Trim plugins allow you to turn down the level of your signal. Just about all DAWs have some variation of this, and it’s really simple to use. The answer was to turn the signal down using trim plugins (known in some DAWs as ‘gain’, and referred to in ProTools as ‘clip gain’). Use trim plugins to turn your signals down: I wanted to be able to use the entire fader to mix with. Working with a low fader position always seemed like a clumsy approach to mixing. Whereas the same change higher up the fader makes the difference of only 2 or 3 dB. Here you can see that using the lower part of the fader means that a small change could make the difference of as much as 10 dB: But the problem with this was that using the lower part of the fader made it hard to make accurate changes. I used to turn down all of the faders to try to resolve the issue. Have you ever started working on a session and realised that before you’ve begun to adjust levels or introduce any plugins, the master fader has already clipped? Before I knew about trim plugins, I had no idea why this kept happening.