But I always wondered this - if you have gobs of headroom in the
busses, what happens after that point? You have more level going to
the power amplifiers, and it's too loud, so you bring down the
masters, and that's not really the right thing to do.

gain structure 101, starts here


you set proper gain structure for the electroincs then only turn up the amps
to the smallest gain that will give you the needed volume
George