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Mix of Ethan Winer's Cello Concerto - Fearless - 02-11-2023 My mixing approach was to emulate the traditional orchestra player placement, not only left to right, but from to back. To achieve better distinction between instruments, I actually made each track mono to start with, in Logic Pro. Then I sent each each mono track to Metric Halo's MIO Console (I use a Metric Halo ULN-2 audio interface -- clear and detailed converters), along with assigning instruments to 1 of 4 aux busses: Aux1:  Solo Cello and Solo Violin Aux2:  Front row instruments (Strings) Aux3:  Middle Row (Woodwinds) Aux4:  Back Row (Horns, Tuba, Bass, and drums/percussion) In MIO Console, I applied panning to match left and right player position. I create 4 reverbs using the Metric Halo "Halo" reverb, applying distance/damping, high and low pass filtering to achieve the distance I want for each Aux bus: Aux1:  "Close" Aux2:  "Mid" Aux3:  "Far" Aux4:  "Very Far" Again, my goal was to achieve a natural sounding orchestra sound in hall. I only applied limiting on the master buss, and was not interested in trying to make it sound "loud", so I tried to retain the natural dynamics in the record performance. The MP3 is 192/44.1 Please comment as you desire. Note to Ethan Winer:  I have enjoyed this piece of music very much... very pretty, and dynamic, I sometimes listen to it several times in a row!