I´m familiar with this problem, in my country Sweden. Its very common for people to put all music low, vocals way load, then squash everything dynamic away, then add lots of 5 k and cut most of the bass to make it loud.
I pay my bills by playing records in clubs and these records do not move any air at all but probably sound loud and punchy on computer style speakers most people listen to these days. I cant say they are wrong but the make my life hell.
Whats wrong with cutting vox frequencies in the backing track so you can have both loud vox and loud music? When you are on it cut away everything that clashes and free up some space, bandwidth.
Use paralell more so it kicks butt without feeling squashed to death.
Can only agree with the above posters, Tony, Dave and Bob !!
