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[sthauge]

I enjoyed this one sthauge.  It's always great to have a detailed dialogue detailing the objectives within the mix.  It gives much more to listen to. 

Hi Dave.

Thank you for listening and commenting. I totally agree that detailed description and comments on "what and why" is important. Everybody have something to learn, also the pros. I've given some thoughts on your comments below. 
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Just wondering if there is too much stereo width to the vocal though? 

I have made a tiny stereo separation on the vocal. Not because I think that it need to be wider, but just to give it some more life and fullness. The spread is as minimum I thought it could be without being mono again. Anyway it's audible.
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With the guitar alone it works quite well but for me the rest of the accompaniment misses out a bit.  The Cello part (I assume it's a cello) feels too mono and a little too small in comparison?   Not sure, it's hard to put my finger on it. 

I might help out a bit here. One important factor our ear and brain use for measuring distance, air and separation it's how it perceive the transients. The guitar have a lot of transients, the cello have not.  This mean that it's easy for us to place a guitar in a stereo field and separate it from other instruments a song. The cello though, is far more complicated. It's panned equal to the guitar(see attached mixer setup), but you do not get the same separation and  air as the guitar. So I guess that's the cause of the more mono sounding of the cello. It's also a challenge to level a instrument as a cello due to little transients. Either it is good noticeable, but tend to overlay other part of the mix or it somewhat disappear in the mix. I used a lot of time on this, but it was hard to get to where i want it to be.  
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Regardless a lovely mix and well done.
Dave

Thank you for kind words.

Steinar 

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PS. The picture shows my mixer setup in my DAW. See the guitar and cello panning.