Andy, google "loudness wars" for a description of this, including the downside.

I use Ozone but Dave gave good advice to use it sparingly. My general technique is to use loudness until I can hear the effect, then back off by half.

SoundCloud may be like YouTube and compress what you upload; I'm not a user so I don't know. If it does, then little adjustment would be needed on your side.


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