I have a three track acoustic song I'm trying to mix down on Cool Edit
Pro. As monitors I have a pair of small Radio Shack Minimus-7's, large
Ohm C-2's, and AKG headphones. (Yeah, I know.) The individual tracks
sound fair. I eq'd the acoustic guitars and for the most part left the
vocal flat. No effects. When I mix down things sound low and lifeless,
though normalized to about 98% of clipping. The vocal sounds a bit
boomy in some parts, though the individual track doesn't sound this
way.

I'm trying to give things a bit more punch. Is it "wrong" to eq more
after mixdown or should this be done beforehand? How about Hard
Limiting? Could someone explain this a bit? This really seems to
increase the perceived loudness.

Thanks.

G.