[Mark Haliday]

All I meant is that L1/L2 is better than straight clipping when it comes to "rounding off edges" of mixes.

BTW you might find this excerpt from the Waves Q10 Manual interesting to read :

<< Under certain circumstances,internal clipping can occur. With high level files (already normalized,or with high peaks),several situations can occur that may cause peaks that did not exist in the unequalized signal.This is true even for filters that have no gain,such as a high-pass filter,or for filters with a cut.The VU meters are output meters and will not show this internal clipping.To show this kind of clipping, meters would be needed between each band of the equalizer.Therefore,if you are using a soundfile with high levels (either normalized or very near 0 dbFS) ,just reduce the Input Faders 3 to 6 dB to allow for internal peaks.<<


Mark Haliday