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Not saying this is the issue here (that really does look like a magnified track). But just for the anti-visual reference, this is why I rarely ever (1) pay attention to meters unless I'm calibrating my chain and (2) rarely ever pay attention to wave forms. 3 highlighted files -- (LUFS) Left...

The phantom power is at your ART preamp - Then, the line level signal goes to your compressor. Then, the line level signal goes to your recorder. Line level input, no phantom. You may already know this. This is just for those that might not.

1) You're going to sum it to mono. Your spaced pair will no longer be spaced. 2) A 50-Euro mixer is probably going to be an extremely noisy mixer. 3) I can hardly see a time where you'd want to compress an acoustic guitar at the input. Unless you're using a Vari-Mu or something just for the...

I don't exactly agree with that (and I've read it somewhere here before). But there you go. Don't exactly agree with that either. The best sounding stuff that comes in here doesn't come out sounding very different. Sometimes it takes a lot of work to make it sound like I didn't do...

Not exactly sure if this applies here, but Imma throw it in anyway just in case... Proper Audio Recording Levels | Blog | The Rants and Ravings of an Audio Mastering Engineer

And I was thinking of all these cool comebacks... :(

I have so little to say about that, that I had to type all this just to say how little I had to say about that.

[Gonna sound harsh] There's a lot of weird stuff going on here. There's no top end. There's some really weird distortion going on with the hat (but it's really weird because there's no top end). It almost sounds like everything has some weird distortion on it or is otherwise "smashed"...

Crushed = Dynamically compromised by over-compression and/or limiting. For some reason, I can't even get the SC file to play at the moment (I'm hoping I can even post at this point). Certainly could be a streaming issue - A link to a raw PCM or at least a high bitrate MP3 would solve that...

Tried a few of them to see if I had anything to be worried about. Wasn't worried.

Totally lost me right there. You've really been at this for 60 years...? NO singles? The 70's? The 80's? The 90's? Damn near everything was available as a single. Even during the "album era" there were scads of "cassingles" and 45's and CD-singles. Not to mention the 60's and earlier...

The definition hasn't changed. The delivery medium has.

If this sounds "off" I apologize. I don't know if it's Soundcloud or not, but I'm hearing a LOT of "CRUSH" and very little clarity. I can't tell if it's at the mix level or at the individual element level. But it sounds extremely low in streaming quality. And if THAT's the case, it's nearly...

I can't even imagine where that comes from. Don't get me wrong - No one is forcing anyone. But -- I mean, come on.... (Ed...? Seriously, is that Ed?)

Sort of going off-topic, but a total fan of that. Always have been. To the extreme. Not for "loud" sake, but for the revealing of details and potential "weaknesses" in a mix that might not be heard otherwise. Crushing the HELL out of a mix (I mean way beyond where it will finally end up) can...

There's no doubt - It's changed. It happens. When I started doing this, most of the job was to get it to the final medium (whether cutting or PMCD, DDP, pancakes, (etc.) while changing the sound as little as humanly possible. Then things changed. Clients wanted more "impact" - and yeah...

The loudness war started as a pissing match between different artists and labels. I don't think the wannabees and amateurs knew what hit them. I'd almost take offense. I've been doing this for over 25 years and was the studio liaison for mastering sessions for years before that. Mastering is...

I work singles all the time... I wouldn't call it "nonsense" (although technically, I'd call it post-production or sweetening).

If you want to go another step up in flexibility without breaking the bank -- Monitor Station V2 | PreSonus Assuming it uses some guts similar to the Central Station (I was using one while my Avocet was being built and I gotta say, the bang for the buck factor of that thing was around 9.7)...

If the KM184's and R121's are on your list, anything else would be "meh" by comparison. ASSUMING you're in a decent space with decent preamps, of course.