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i have 2 options
either lower everything down and go from there
or push some tracks into 0db to get the volume i want out of them
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You have a much easier and better third option.
Leave all the tracks as they are, get rid of the limiter, and turn down the master fader until its stop clipping.
The mastering process should be done separately to the mixing process.
And final mix should not clip, and should not be limited, that’s the job done in the job done in the mastering process.
You're not going to lose any audio quality turning it down a bit and leaving some headroom.
You are going to lose quality clipping or limiting something before its mastered.
For example, it’s not that uncommon for people to put in way too much bass into a mix, I’m guilty of doing this all the time. It’s not really a problem, the mastering engineer will just cut the bass back a little. But if the tracks transients were peaking a 0db, and the reason for this was that they were sitting on top of the bass, then turning the bass down will also bring down the transients’ peak level and give you more headroom. But if you’ve limited or clipped that track you not going to get the transient extra dynamics back, but if you haven’t limited or clipped it then you will.
Don’t limit, don’t clip, turn it down a bit and let the master engineer sort that out.
Even if you’re mastering your own tracks, do it as a separate process.