I've read a lot about audio compression and I've tried a lot of software compressors (including PSP, Waves,TC...) but I've never achieve good results with them all: "destroy" much more than fix. May be I have found something that's not made for myself (sound compression)
...and I have to confess that in one of my songs (The Lost Summer) I've upped the master fader up to 2.6 dB over the Cubase red indicator limit, and in the song "Sync Monster" even more!
I've wrote this songs to CD and played them in to several devices without any problem, converted it to MP3 and even upload in our forum without nobody's complain about bad sound...
In this way I finally achieve that my songs sound as loud as the commercial ones, but breaking all the mastering rules.
I'm confused.