Good song. Good message too.

I listened on good earbuds. The music balance sounds good.

Oldmuso made a good point above about the fx on the kit and vox.

It sounds like you treated the drums with reverb and didn't use it on the rest of the band. My suggestion is to remove it from the drums or at least back it off. Perhaps treat the entire mix with a very light verb to add some overall wetness and cohesion. The drums are out there on their own so to speak. My way to do this is to leave the band mostly dry and add the verb in the final master buss. Bring it up until I can hear it and then back it off 10% or more until it "disappears" from the mix. Trust me, it's still there adding that atmosphere at the mostly right level.

Vocals.... They could stand to come up, and they sound sonically disconnected in that they seem to have that same kind of "different" verb from the rest of the mix. I don't know if it's the verb or EQ settings, but they also sound a bit high end bright to my old ears. Both issues are easy fixes with the verb and EQ.

Length... yeah it's long but this genre tends to be long-winded anyway, so there's not a big problem with the run time.

All in all, a good song with a few easy tweeks away from being really good.

Last edited by Guitarhacker; 08/20/21 04:27 AM.
You can find my music at:
www.herbhartley.com
Add nothing that adds nothing to the music.
You can make excuses or you can make progress but not both.

The magic you are looking for is in the work you are avoiding.