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Also dude, not to be age-ist or anything, but you're only 17.  I've done some fantastic things in my music career, but if I were to gauge where I was at 17 I'd be a complete musical failure whose greatest moment was not sucking at a high school talent show.   

Don't worry about making everything happen at once.  Get AWESOME at your craft.  Think you're pretty good? You still have a MILLION ways to get better as a musician, and it'll show.  There is no peaking.  TRUST ME.  If you're really a great musician, and if you keep at it, some cool things will happen to you.

Classical music is much better to listen to on the radio because I don't need to play volume jockey.   Personally, I like the most convenient-transparent listening environment so that I can really focus on the content rather than bullshit.

The listener gets the best experience when your track plays and he doesn't think about mixing or mastering whatsoever.  Mastering should be transparent, meaning, if they need to adjust their settings, or raise the volume, thats taking away focus from your COMPOSITION.

I master my songs so that if they're on a mix CD, or playlist, or car stereo or whatever, they fit in without any sort of jolt.  I also master them so the bass is sexy.  By the grace of god, LSDJ sounds huge enough on its own (provided your sound design is good) that you really only need to give it a tiny bit of love during mastering.  It's surprising really.  The complete lack of offensive high end frequencies helps immensely.

Here's the difference between my raw track and the mastered track.  I alternate back and forth.  What sounds better to you?

http://www.armcannon.com/danimal/danima … asters.mp3

Oh drunk threads, you so maudlin.  I guess I'm an "I LOVE YOU MAN" drunk.  But seriously that dude has those lovely jazzy progressions that all the prog dudes love, but he's so damn catchy that everyone else likes it too.

yeah!

Fuck.  I'm flying to PAX East this day.