Need help with general gain staging and audio levels for a rough premix

I've been having an issue determining the proper levels in my many different tracks to find the right balance in the mix for any given song that I have.

In many tutorials and videos that I've seen people work on mixes, I notice that most of the track stems that they are mixing have very high levels, constantly hitting yellow and red peaks on their individual meters. Even for tracks that aren't necessarily driving the entire song and they don't still overpower the main tracks that do.

On the contrary, in my own productions and mixes, I often find that I have several tracks where I have to lower the audio considerably to the point where they're barely peaking at the lower end of the meter between -15dB and -50dB. If i try to raise the volume, they soon overpower other elements in the same FQ range. If I mess with the EQ on these tracks, it usually ends up sounding very dull and unnatural.

Because of these issues with general balance from track to track, I often go back and forth between making tiny volume adjustments to a lot of tracks while monitoring at a high level because I can't hear everything in detail otherwise.

I'm confused at what I may be doing wrong. Am I supposed to use limiters or compressors? Is it a flaw in production? Does it really matter if I have the main driving pianos at -10dB and the background supplemental strings at -40dB if it sounds neatly balanced? How is it that almost all the tracks in this are all hitting yellows and red peaks and not overpowering each other like in my own production/mixes?

I hope someone who's been through this early on in their developing mixing skills could shed some light on it. I appreciate everyone who takes the time to voice in.

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ANy thoughts?

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I am wondering if my reservoir is too warm and some other questions relating to using a barrel to premix a big batch of feed

I am using a 55 gallon barrel to premix a large batch of water/food.

Filled a half barrel first time to make sure everything was alright and noticed after checking the barrel afterwards that there was alot of what seemed like algea or some kind of buildup. also the tubing that was inside the barrel for the pump i use to water was
white or seemed to have some growth

When i noticed it I freaked out and cleaned it all up and didn't refill it until I went to my local hydro shop to ask about it.

I mentioned to my local hydroponics store and showed them pictures and they said that it was just buildup from the nutes and that it was nothing to worry about and to just clean the barrel after everygrow.

I imagine that if i did a whole grow like this my pump and everything would be absolutely covered in this stuff.

I suspect that it is either that the barrel is too warm(if i put my finger in the whole for hoses etc it feels quite warm or if i open the top and look in its warm on my face), or the nutrients arent very clean and the nutes I'm using are the shops house line so they just wanna say its normal.

I've since purchased a 1000gph pump to circulate the water, and added a small dose of UC roots to the barrel. Since the beginning 2 water stones aerating the water.

Am I wrong to be thinking that the water should stay relatively clean over a matter of just a couple of weeks?

Here's a imgur link to the pic i took after the first grow https://imgur.com/a/plJMta5

After my next water the barrel will be empty so i will check it again and post again a picture of it.

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Can't see a problem with it, just curious if it's doable. Will they spoil?

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Im doing assistant editor work for a german series, and a long email was sent to me with the requests from the editor there is this only sentence i cant understand, if anyone can help i will be really glad!

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