This mix resolved all the issues that I noticed. 100% better for me but perhaps a little less in-your-face vocal than the first take.

Having grown up in a very different musical world than today I am not always as immediately receptive to a modern motif such as E to Eb.

Also, I have not commented much here on this forum because I have little real knowledge about how to actually fix things in a mix. I have always been the player in the studio and not the engineer. I only can say what I hear and how that affects me.

I have learned that perfection does not exist and sometimes when you get too close to it is not a good thing. So-called mistakes are what make great songs.

Trust your gut.

Billy

“Amazing! I’ll be working with Jaco Pastorius, Charlie Parker, Art Tatum, and Buddy Rich, and you’re telling me it’s not that great of a gig?
“Well…” Saint Peter, hesitated, “God’s got this girlfriend who thinks she can sing…”