dynamic ranges sounding good. I produce drum n bass, if you've heard any tracks by Noisia, I was wondering if you would say they are over-compressed. they are definately loud, but they are punchy and every sound is very detailed, even though this isn't necessarily the sound I'm looking for, it's possibly a bit too harsh. I will try using that DR Meter on some tracks to get an idea. Thanks a lot The thing about this genre is you can get away with quite a lot -- distortion is such an integral part of the sound, who's going to mind a little more ? And because all the sounds are basically OFF/ON, you can still get some apparent punch in there, but more dynamics would still sound better, in my opinion. I recently mastered a mostly electronic pop/dance track. This track was relatively easy to get up-to -10dBFS mean RMS and hovering in the amber on the TT DR meter (with the quieter vocal passages in the green) which I'm happy enough with for this type of music. Pushing the levels with 2 track compression/limiting and gain doesn't really seem to harm the sound of this song too much so long as the transients are allowed to live at least a little, but.... The arrangement has relatively little occuring in the "sugar" zone, that high-mid to high band that typically gets filled with sweetsynth on many modern pop mixes. As a vocal pop song with some kicking dance elements