Hi.

So I've been struggling for many years to achieve a higher RMS level and loudness in my productions. I have noticed that a lot of music that is perceived louder than mine has an RMS reading of roughly -2db. Although when I apply a limiter and loudness maximizer on my final mixdown, the highest RMS I can achieve (before distorting the audio) is around roughly -6db to -7db. I am always leaving -6db to -3db of headroom before applying the master chain processing.

Here is an example of a recent remix that I have uploaded to soundcloud. As you can hear, it is still reasonably quite in comparison to most music that is released.

https://soundcloud.com/ziosmusic/chameleonziosremix

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers.