Louder Please?

Yukon said:
Back to what you were really asking though. I try keep my RMS between -8 and -10dB but because of loudness war it's not surprising for tracks to be squashed to like -5 db RMS.
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even breaks masters are above 5 rms most of the times. 7-10 is the norm im finding.

miszt said:
yeah exactly, my usual chain of FX goes something like this:

Synth > Filter > Texture (chorus/phase/distortion/etc) > EQ > (gentle) Compression
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i love to do texture before filtering, gives you more sound to filter imo, all depends tho.

on topic. -10 when producing is fine, but with the master you should be at -0.1 or something like that. if youre mastering on your own, 10-13 rms should really be fine. that way you wont end up destroying your produced sound, and only have to put the gain up a little bit when playing in comparison to professionally mastered tunes.
 
You don't use EQ just to give each sound it's space on the frequency spectrum. You can do some crazy shit on them to achieve pretty new sounds, specially on saturated ones, but I may be talking too experimental here...
 
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