How to Gain Stage in Ableton and mix with multiple limiters by Reid Stefan Realest Puppet In The Game. in this Ableton 10 tutorial we create gain staging mix sums by grouping channels and applying limiter plugins to control the gain staging of our mix. This tutorial also covers parallel compression on an aux channel. Limiters used in this tutorial are Slate FGX, FabFilter Pro-L 2, The Glue by Cytomic, and Waves CLA-76.