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In remastering some tracks for uploading (I've noticed this in the past also) I noticed that some tracks with few instruments sounded just as loud as tracks with a full band playing, even if the waveform indicated it was softer and in reality. if you were in a room with a live band the band would sound much louder than say, just a voice and guitar. Once recorded, however, it seems the more "spacious" the sound, the more its perceived loudness. If a sound is "busy" it doesn't sound as loud as it would live. Is this an acoustic/perceptual phenomenon? Any audio experts out there?