I agree with pretty much everything everyone else has said. - Lose the beveled edge. - The meter-effect thing is a decent concept, I guess, but it's way too ove

I agree with pretty much everything everyone else has said. - Lose the beveled edge. - The meter-effect thing is a decent concept, I guess, but it's way too overdone. One letter is more than enough. - It already has enough color, don't color any of the letters or the dot over the i. You should always consider whether or not your logo will look good if you have only one color to work with. Think about things like screening your logo in black-and-white (e.g., a t-shirt or trade-show duffel bag). Incidentally, this is one reason to avoid gradients in general (another being that they just look like crap). This is also why the bevel has to go. So will the sound-meter analogy carry through with just black? I think it might lose something if you don't have green and red to work with, but that's just my opinion. You should also make sure that you can shrink your logo down to a teeny-tiny size and have it still be recognizable. Think about things like favicons. The font in the logo is actually pretty good... it's clean, readable, and a bit edgy. I'm certainly no graphic designer, this is just stuff that I've read about logo design over the years. :)