If I don’t have high quality sounds, what will give me the perceived loudness i need to reach (-11) to (-8) lufs? aside from plugins -balancing frequencies and gain staging only do so much. Ik every trick in the book but for some reason i haven’t figured out that last 2% Would someone kindly help me?

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