Originally Posted By: MusicStudent
By the way, this piece sounds 10x better on my DAW with Headphones. What has SoundCloud done to this??

Soundcloud is, like most streamers, happiest with around -14 LUFS at the best quality you can upload - it will apply its proprietary SMASH, mangle and spit out processing. In general terms it's a little better than other streamers but not fabulous. It's often easier to get a better quality return on spending the 10 minutes needed making a quick slide show video and uploading that to Utub or Vimeo etc.
A few forums I've been on have had an MP3 hosting server and while a 320 MP3 isn't fabulous it's often better than streamer screamers. An option you may also consider is uploading the .wav to a downloader like WeTransfer if you want critical listening though many won't be comfortable downloading from an unknown and other not prepared to wait.


Cheers
rayc
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