Hi Graham and Bluesraveler - thank you so much. The Shadows are part of my Era and my "Live" guitar work, both early Shads and modern Hank Marvin. I guess it must come over in the playing somehow.
Hi Deryk - thank you. If you look at my Sig you'll see that most of my gear is ancient. I tend to work up a non-compressed mix in Cakewalk (in XP Pro) that I basically like the sound of, then open up Adobe Audition and "master" it with what they call Soft Knee Compression. That drops the volume quite a lot but fattens it out so I bring it back to a higher level and just in case there are any spikes, I "normalize" at 99%. I have no idea if that is right or wrong - it just seems to work for me, sometimes better than others.
Cheers
ian

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