The audio levels seemed fine to me. I played it through my Altec Lansing Surround sound with bass cube hooked up to my computer. By the way nice effect auto panning some of the guitar from left to right and right to left speakers. I have always liked that effect but I always seem to forget about it while I am doing my own mixes. Like that heavy Riff you have going also. Great guitar all the way around. Also I have a guitar exactly like your Bastard 2 guitar only mine has 2 dual humbuckers. I took the white pickguard off mine and put that same pickguard on my black strat like yours has and I put in a pair of Dimarzio D Activator pickups in it. Yours is the only other one I have seen so far with that same color scheme.