18-05-2015, 09:33 PM
I'm no expert on metering, I'm using the Waves WLM Meter which shows true peak level to be -0.5dB (fair enough), the long-term loudness to be -11 LUFS and the range to be only 1LU. Waves PAZ Meter gives the RMS over the whole song as -3.4dB which is UNBELIEVABLY loud - as in, I can't quite believe you managed to get that without there being massive audible distortion! 
Typically for a track like this you'd want something like -8 to -10dB RMS, if not more.
What are you running it through at mastering? Or could be a problem with the conversion to mp3? Though I wouldn't expect that to give you this over-compressed sound, I'd expect more audible artifacts than that. Sorry to not be of more help.
Typically for a track like this you'd want something like -8 to -10dB RMS, if not more. What are you running it through at mastering? Or could be a problem with the conversion to mp3? Though I wouldn't expect that to give you this over-compressed sound, I'd expect more audible artifacts than that. Sorry to not be of more help.