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I think it's better to try and mix without anything on your master. If you can properly balance your mix without causing it to go over 0db, you'll be way better off when you start your mastering process.

You might have too much going on in your low-mids, or your lead could be running too hot through a compresser or something!

I'd like to think it's a mix of styles that hasn't really occurred before. Some artist is gonna do something so dope, everyone will immediately bandwagon and make it a trend?

Just had a spontaneous idea of making a kind of cloud library of samples and sounds producers make on the forum that they want to share with the community. It'd be a great way to learn from each other and get free sounds 

I can say I've been able to do both! From my experience, studio mixing seems to be much more precise and relies more on maximizing your frequency range and stereo field. Live mixing definitely does too, but I feel like I have way more space to work with in a live setting compared to in the studio. The other funny thing about live mixing is you can be WAY more drastic with your EQing. Tight, surgical boosts of ±1db on a kick in the studio will barely do anything live. Those same bands could be ±10db. That was a very strange thing to get used to haha. I guess the difference in the way I approach both is; when I'm mixing live, I focus on filling out the room as much as possible. If the band is just drums, bass, and a guitar, there's more freedom to use reverb and really boost the sub on the kick and bass. It's easier for frequencies of instruments to have overlap live, while in the studio you have to be extremely meaningful to cut unnecessary high and low frequencies, which I think is just because of how loud we want to make our finished product. Hope that helps!

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Which is essentially peak limiting, compression with makeup gain, and a little bit of saturation