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Another good one from FytaKyte!
Thanks for your comments

Hi Phil. A few thoughts on first listen. Is your kick a triggered sample; It seems sub heavy and really bombastic?
there are lots of good tonal elements , but I feel these get lost among other issues.
I think a good starting place that will enable those good elements to shine, would be to sort the foundation of the mix; the drums and bass. I try to pick three elements of the mix that I want to shine, then work the rest around that .
Eg. always the vocal, then the three. My final thought was your vocal sounds like it sits in a complete different room to the rest of the mix which made the mix sound like 2 separate mixes.
Hope this is helpful.

Keep on keeping on

(16-03-2024, 08:03 PM)Rustyruss Wrote: [ -> ]Hi Phil. A few thoughts on first listen. Is your kick a triggered sample; It seems sub heavy and really bombastic?
there are lots of good tonal elements , but I feel these get lost among other issues.
I think a good starting place that will enable those good  elements to shine, would be to sort the foundation of the mix; the drums and bass. I try to pick three elements of the mix that I want to shine, then work the rest around that .
Eg. always the vocal, then the three. My final thought was your vocal sounds like it sits in a complete different room to the rest of the mix which made the mix sound like 2 separate mixes.
Hope this is helpful. 

Keep on keeping on

Hi Rusty, I didn't add any triggered sample, but the orginal tracks have one for the kick (sub). I guess I mixed in too much of that.
I agree the strings especially in one point are lost, masked I guess by the rhodes piano mid low tone (which I tried to contain anyway).
About the vocals: I was trying to use a different space in order to get more presence, may be too much different, I don't know, I do like it and I do not like at the same time.   
Anyway, thank you very much for the feedback.