[JSR]

You have the right idea. In my opinion, when mixing music, if you need to push a track greater then +6dB, there is a problem somewhere else in the mix....usually something needs to be lowered or eq'd differently in order to make the sound your focusing on cut through. Making things louder only leads to problems. This takes into account the tracks you're mixing have a decent level.

I find the +12dB feature is really hand in post mixing...namely with dialog. Usually field dialog comes in recorded at extremely low levels and I had to usually Audio Sweet gain, or use the +6db on the fader and also the gain on the Trim plugin before we had +12db. The +12db makes things a bit quicker in situations like this.