Hi Deej,

This is very, very good!

What always strikes me with your works is your well-honed sense of musicianship. It extends from the shape and rhythm of your melodies to the way you set your lyric and into your thoughtful creative arrangements. Your chorus on this one stood out to me. It captures the momentum of the lyrics so well.

I read above that you battle a bit with mixing. I can really relate to that! It's my biggest struggle when it comes to getting a song together. A couple of things that I do that seem to help a bit are:

(a) having a recording whose mix is similar to the genre I'm striving for and whose ambience is similar to what I'm chasing -- I then A/B my mix versus that recording.

(b) alternating the mixing process between headphones and speakers -- each output showcases different imperfections for me and by alternating a headphones-only mixing session with a speakers-only mixing session leads me to process things differently; after a half a dozen mixings through each output, they eventually meet and I'm happy how it sounds on headphones as well as speakers without any further tweaking.

I've still got a long way to go when it comes to mixing, though, so please keep that in mind when you read the above.

All the best,
Noel

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