Hi Jesse,
Thanks for the music and for your deep analysis. I'll try to give practice to all your suggestions, but as far as leveling individual records it's something I do from the beginning, one by one, all of my 5000 tracks in the playlist (they are at -3db). Most depends on the recording quality, being from 70s and 80s… (maybe I should need the "Undo" technology from Omnia 9X2, but at the moment I can't afford it…)