> I import the bounced song into 'Har-Bal' which is a PC only app I use > on a little laptop, cause I'm on a G5. > It shows the average frequency spectrum of the whole track as a > frequency spectrum graph line. It also shows the peak frequency lines > (which could go high up just from one cymbal crash in the song or any > loud peak). > 'Har-Bal' also shows the peak and average frequency spectrum graphs of > any commercial CD you wish to compare to. > Then squash it with 'waves L2' or similar till it's loud enough. But > yeah I don't like too squashed either. Gotta have some bump in the > music. All good points Roman. I just wanted to add that Ozone allows a similar form of EQ comparison, which as you say, is always very helpful. And, I seem to remember Ozone's limiter beating the Waves L2-L3 in a "shootout" that Sound On Sound did a while back. In my own personal tests, I preferred it too, and it also sounds clearer than Logic's Ad-Limiter, as well as having better sounding dithering than Logic's, which is quite impressive, because Logic sounds pretty good in that department. Peace, Ed Billeaud Snowflake Studio P.O. Box 7637 Breckenridge, CO 80424 970-453-6830 edva@earthlink.net http://www.soundclick.com/edbilleaud