Recently, I've been puzzled about how my masters always sound so quiet. When I turn up the limiter's gain, it sounds squashed but if I lower the gain, it sounds too quiet. It sounds loud enough to me in LMMS but upon uploading it to Soundcloud, it sounds way more quiet than literally everyone else's work.
The waveform of my latest track: Voleur de Coeurs (https://soundcloud.com/fena900/voleur-de-coeurs)
I have always assumed that it was because I didn't compress enough before putting the limiter's gain up but I wouldn't want to sacrifice what little dynamic range electronic music has. (The loudness war, etc.)
Just how do I master properly? Or is it a problem in the mixing stage?
The waveform of my latest track: Voleur de Coeurs (https://soundcloud.com/fena900/voleur-de-coeurs)
I have always assumed that it was because I didn't compress enough before putting the limiter's gain up but I wouldn't want to sacrifice what little dynamic range electronic music has. (The loudness war, etc.)
Just how do I master properly? Or is it a problem in the mixing stage?