Thanks everybody. Appreciate the tips. Noel that was a kind offer.

Turns out it was mostly upload glitches. This seems to happen more often with Chrome so I switched to the old uploader on SC. I stepped away from this song and will come back to it with fresh ears this weekend. Sometimes that helps more than anything to get my perspective back when I get all frustrated. smile

BTW, it finally dawned on me to upgrade my LAME converter to the latest one which sounds 1000% better for checking before I upload from now on. I know it's not the exact same as what I'll get from the different site converters processing my wav but should be close enough to give me a good idea of what to expect.