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question on pre-mastered mixes

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Hey everybody...Well here is my situation followed by my question. I have been doing mixes lately for much more professional artists than the run of the mill local kid garage bands I used to get. I produce mainly rock projects. Usually I used to just do the poor man's mastering cause the kids couldnt afford to pop down any more cash for a true mastering engineer.

Broadcast levels

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Hi everyone,I was just wondering what would be the maximum loudness level for pop music you would want to send to commercial radio stations for fm broadcast.A lot of commercial CD's I've been listening to have a loudness level of up to +13 vu and sound great (some don't),I'm sure this would not sound very nice on radio after going through all thier limiters and other processing.So the main poin

Stereo spread

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Hi guy's I was just wondering how often you use a stereo spreader to open up a mix or close up one which is too wide?Can you please name any hardware which is good for this or software,I tried the Wavess1 and it was quite pleasing (at only 10% wider,I used it sparingly),can you please recommend better ones for me to try.Also are speaders likely to screw things up even if used sparingly,I'm quit