Here's an original of mine, "What do You Say".

Lyric video:

Soundcloud audio:
https://soundcloud.com/st-josephs-social-club/what-do-you-say?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

I used BIAB for drums, bass, guitar and the background aaahs, which I auditioned to fit the piano, which I'd written in EZKeys. I and a Fiverr freelancer, Yamille, sang. I added a bit of Orange Tree Samples' Passion Flute, and I mixed everything in Mixcraft, using various basic VST fx.

For verb I used the "Abbey Road" technique https://westlakepro.com/abbey-road-reverb-trick/

On the master buss I used upward compression to reveal detail, using a preset named, oddly enough, "Reveal Detail" in ToneBooster's multiband compressor, dialing in the wet / dry mix to taste. I'd suggest trying the trial version. Used judiciously, it can be a nice magic fairy dust plugin. I fed its output into a normal compressor (Tokyo Dawn Labs' free Kotelnikov) set very lightly, i.e. ratio of 1.5, with the threshold set so that gain reduction ranged between 0 and -1-ish.

Whatever your thoughts, I'd like to know what you listened to this on (cans, ear buds, studio monitors, grok box, hi-fi, phone speaker etc). So tricky trying to mix fort so many devices!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tDj_VanH3g