I'm opening up this discussion here because, even though it refers to music I've posed in the User Showcase, I don't think it's appropriate to start a discussion there.

I've posted links to a few of my tunes up at Soundcloud.com in the User Showcase sub-forum and I've just noticed something.

I went back and listened to the original .wav files that I recorded -- before converting them to mp3's, which were what I uploaded to Soundcloud. I used Realband to check out the .wav files and I noticed they were kind of quiet, so I used the PG limiter and 10-band EQ to punch up the sound quite a bit. Well, I loaded a couple of these remixed tunes to Soundcloud, and guess what? I couldn't tell the difference between the new ones and the original ones that I'd recorded at a much more quiet level. I mean, I was ping-ponging back and forth between two versions of the same tune -- one supposedly recorded at a more quiet level, and one remixed to be hotter -- and I couldn't tell a difference. So, I'm thinking that Soundcloud actually adds some limiting and compression, at the very least, to uploads to bring up the levels to where they ought to be.

I'm just wondering if anyone else here has noticed this and if you might know exactly what Soundcloud does to a piece of muusic once it's been uploaded onto their site.

After A-B'ing a couple of tunes of mine, it's really got me curious now. So, any info you might could pass along would be appreciated. Thanks.

Best,
Michael

My Music:
https://soundcloud.com/michaelmcbroom/albums