Hey everyone...first-timer

Been using computers to create music since my Atari 32 meg computer and proteus sound modules (1979) but, until recently, never had to deal with the BIG phrase----Broadcast-Quality......and My music college never mentioned it!!!

I'm sure this question is not new for you, but here goes....

.I currently compose on Logic pro (7...) and have all the latest libraries..Mac Quad---amp/speakers...ALL computer-based......I love the way my tracks sound through my studio speakers--after all..I mix-on-the-fly ( if that's a phrase--meaning I tweak my composition as I go, adding reverb to this track and that, and lowering/raising levels etc.)..at the end (with no mixing-stage per se.).I have a great sounding track..all balanced, reverbed to my liking..

Get in my car stereo c.d. and it is 30% softer.....a bit boomy--(keep in mind I am doing some world/new age stuff at present)...I can't afford to take my 43 latest compositions to a studio to have them mastered....

What the heck do I do?? No one has TOLD me they are not broadcast quality...but it is obvious when I put in a "big-time studio" c.d. of similar-sounding stuff....

In the past couple of days I have been fooling around within Logic (limiter/dynamic processor--MIDI) THEN fooling around with the bounced audio/final mix and using the factorys' audio energizer and gain functions...a LITTLE better...but I tend to lose the original balance of sounds I loved when the track was played through my studio..

Anyone with any ideas?? Can a $300 mastering piece of software be a decent way to be competitive with a "mastered" sound???

Thanks for any help folks

Ray
miami beach