Hi Everyone!

I was trying to look it up, but was unable as it is pretty specific. However I am pretty sure people had such problem before.

So, I have:
1) Yamaha MG166CX-USB Mixer
2) AKAI MPC 1000
3) Yamaha MM6 Synthesizer
4) PC with Acid Pro 6
5) M-Audio BX5a monitors

I've been wondering lately if I should be leaving more headroom while tracking and mixing both. I use Cubase 4 and I usually try to record with my console input meters hitting about -6db just because I heard that somewhere. However, I find myself maxing out the mix pretty quick when adding more tracks and whatnot. Any general guidelines that I should know about?

I am curious to know what actually causes negitave peaks in a waveform. I seem to get heavy negitave peaks when i used a few certain distorted synths. My ears don't seem to be hearing whats causing it. I really like the sound of the synth so am reluctant to change it. I presume these peaks will cause problems to the mastering of the tracks as the wave will look very unbalanced.

Say you have an awesome track but there's one spot in the waveform that peaks a little, how do you handle that? Normalize?

Hi,

I'm very green at this stuff and i ran across something i just don't get.

I squashed a mix in Wavelab with the L2 to -0.2db with threshold of -7 and Arc on, the wavelab output meter actually read -0.2db, ok fine and dandy.