This may be a general producing question but whenever I render down my tunes, they always seem to be 10% quieter than other tunes out there.
I have tried several mastering compressors such a PSP vintage warmer and also use side chaining lots which should make space in mix for drums but it doesn’t quite cut it!
I just wandered if it was due to ‘real time export’?
Don’t like pushing it too much with software compressors as you start to loose detail... unless there are some top end ones that i might not be aware of.
Any suggestions?
PS using cubase sx 3