Check Headroom.
Avoid Clipping.
Enter your peak level and target level to calculate available headroom, gain adjustment, clipping risk, and whether your recording, mix, or premaster has enough space to process safely.
Enter Peak.
Set Target.
Use this calculator to find how much headroom is available before clipping and how much gain adjustment is needed to hit a safer recording, mixing, or mastering target.
Headroom
& Safety.
This is usable headroom, but the mix is getting close to the ceiling. Leave more room if you plan to master or add heavy bus processing.
Use clip gain, event gain, trim plugins, or channel gain before heavy processing if your source is too hot.
More Space.
Cleaner Processing.
Headroom protects your audio from clipping and gives plugins space to work. Good headroom keeps vocals cleaner, drums punchier, bass tighter, and mastering chains more controlled.
Recording
Track vocals and instruments with room below 0 dBFS so sudden peaks do not clip.
Mixing
Keep channels and buses from running too hot before compression, EQ, and saturation.
Premaster
Leave around 3–6 dB of space so mastering has room for final EQ, limiting, and loudness.
Beat Mixing
Turn down loud 2-track beats so vocals can sit without crushing the master bus.
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