You can raise levels without compression to the point that the highest peak is at 0dbfs. If you want it louder than that, you will need a limiter to beat down the peaks so you can turn it up more.
I'm going to go into my "old man" speech:
Mastering is the act of making sure the audio matches the specs that the final product needs to have.
Back when people were making albums, part of mastering was making sure that all the content sounded like it belonged together, or at least flowed well...
Supply chain has screwed up everything. I had to order Shure handheld and lav packs (because they were stolen) in August. They are telling me I might get them in January, and I work for a company that spends millions of dollars with Shure every year.
Nearly everything is backed up like this.
If I remember correctly, Mackie made one in the late 90s. There were a couple companies that made these, but they weren't very popular and DAWs made them obsolete pretty quickly.
With music, there is a lot going on and it is easy to misdiagnose a problem.
What you could be thinking is a mix problem might be an arraignment problem or a poor choice of tone for an instrument.
Painting with a broad brush...
Overwound pickups will have higher output, at the expense of clarity. Think the difference between a strat pickup and a coil split humbucker.
Active pickups tend to be weaker pickups with a preamp. Weaker pickups tend to have more clarity, but don't drive the...
Mastering is the very last thing you do. If you haven't recorded all the instruments and mixed it, it's too soon to worry about mastering.
Get the mix the way you want it, and use the mastering as polish at the very end.
As always, it depends on what the mix needs.
If you are trying to make the loud and soft parts not so loud and soft, slower attack and release will do that with a lower ratio.
If you are trying to get more volume, fast attack and release with a higher ratio.
What everyone calls "mastering" at...
Plug-ins can emulate the types of distortion, filtering and phase shifting that analog gear does. The trick is figuring out which of those things is what you are after.
A fender champ and a Marshall jcm 800 are both tube guitar amps, both have tube "warmth", but they don't sound anything...
I had the same sort of problem. It was a long time ago, but it would decide to change/lose the sample rate in the middle of the show. Did it a couple times and I just gave up and ran it analog after that.
You can try to overdub it, but you would have to be pretty tight with the original performance.
Maybe just overdub the parts that really need articulation, then bring that track up under the rest of it, so it doesn't sound out of place.
The easiest way to do it would be to put the delay on a send. Pan that part of the track left and the delay return right.
If you have a mono track, you may not be able to have a stereo effect on it.
It comes down to the same things it always had. Your music needs to have mass appeal, you need to have that as well. Since record companies don't invest in acts, you need to be able to develop yourself as an artist and learn to market yourself.
The main things that have changed are:
1...
I have stapled them to the wall before. It works well and doesn't leave a mess when you take them down. The wall is easily fixed with some spackle and paint.
The spray glue that people use won't come off the wall, so if you want to turn it back into a normal wall.again, you will need to...
But probably not analog video. Vga is analog and hdmi is digital, that's why the adapter didn't work.
BTW, the original post was 5 years ago. Hopefully the OP found the answer or moved on by now.