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Well done with the instrument placements, every one has it's place.
Overall the mix sounds good. However for my taste I miss the warmth and perhaps a little de-ess on the vocal would tame those "S" sounds.
Also you may want to check your levels I noticed frequent analogue clipping. This could have happened during the file conversion to MP3.
Have fun with V2.

Thanks for the input. I'm going to guess your system has more hi-end than mine. I say that because I did almost no EQ and only slight ambience on the vocals. That being said, you do make good points. I was more cognizant of the upper-mids of the vocals in my coming mix. I think for mild harshness and not as much a true de-essing. As for the distortion, there may be a bad plug in my rig, however, what you may be hearing is cymbals from the over-heads which when solo'd sound like clicks. It threw me for a while especially since my setup is somewhat unconventional.

It may also have to do with a conversion from 44.1 .wav files to a forced minimum 48K DAW config because of Dante Via acting as the audio I/O. I think for my next project I may up-convert those files prior to bringing them into the DAW and see if that makes a difference. These conversions are not my ballywick. It may take some digging to get this squared away.

Again, thanks for the valuable input and keep an eye out for version 2. It will be a more 'produced' version!