How to Mix a Low End 808 Without Distortion

In general, there are no expectations. You want to go as loud as possible. Louder is always better. If you're really good at mixing and you've been able to do the work of properly controlling dynamics while you're mixing, it's easier to get a mix at minus 5 L UFS. Less compression is going to be dynamic. In fact, with cinematic music, minus 14 is a great way of putting it because you want those loud, lowy boof to be short term minus 14 at the loudest. So that's very important to bring up. And if and I would even go as far as to always just assume that that's an always rule, like 100

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