Im gonna try to do a quick n dirty master to see if i can demonstrate what Im talking about. It seems the main issue is that your kick and your bass are sitting all over each other, and theres not much density in your midrange or high end. I’d thinking about using compressors to change the attack shape of a sound/buss or using a comp to make things heavier/weightier, but not necessarily to manage peaks. Its hovering around -13LUFS, which is extremely quiet by modern standards. The second time, it’ll take a 10th or less of the time. The first time you had to figure everything out.
Re doing a mix can be really helpful, and it won’t take you as long. Busses should be peaking below your track peak, definitely. I’d start the mix again, turn up your monitors a bit, and get your kick and snare right, then go from there bringing volumes up. Well, generally its when sounds dont have their own space in a mix, and frequencies seem to clash in an unfavourable way. Moving busses IS helpful for balance, and I might ultimately have a music buss, and a drum buss, just to get that balance right going into mastering, but you can be sure, I’m not taking one buss down 3 db, and another up 3db. MP3 is typically a compressed audio format, that’s why its never advisable to send an MP3 to your engineer for mastering. During conversion into a format like MP3, the sound quality will be greatly compromised. it is of its highest quality which is a loss-less format. That is not good practice when gain staging. Another reason why your song could sound quiet after is because of conversion. Your busses shouldn’t be getting out of hand like that. I recommend turning your monitors up louder. But I work UP to -6db or whatever my track is going to be peaking at. I wouldn’t be making big moves with your buss like that, just me.
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