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Ron, Mario, Elliot, Al, Floyd, Vic, Tune & Ray, I usually prefer to reply to all responders individually, but there's are some recurring themes. Re the organ and 1st guitar solo, Ron wrote "the organ dominates the early section" plus "the first solo sits back in the mix, but I like it there." I agree in that I didn't want that 1st solo to be too loud. Al wrote "In the first part the organ somewhat overpowers the lead guitar"; and Floyd "that early guitar needs a bit of volume to compete with the organ" Then TuneMonger wrote "the organ felt intrusive to me". These comments re the organ really baffled me so I've played the track back as the video, just the WAV file at different volumes, plus I also created a mono version to see if that shed any light on the mix. To my ears the organ is pretty much at its right volume level as is the stereo bias which separates it from the louder 1st guitar solo, so I don't really see a 'competition' between the two. I even wondered if different hi-fi settings made others here the balances different to what I hear. However, if I do a remix in future I'd probably lower the organ's gain by no more than 0.2db and higher the guitar's gain by no more than 0.2db; though there was for me one major error made re the shorter 2nd guitar solo which was pasted together from segments of 5 different regenerations: the 1st elongated note which is followed by 2 louder shorter ones are from the same segment and that opening note was actually way lower in volume than the next 2, thus I automatically increased the volume of that 1st note to even it out with the 2nd & 3rd, but what I should have done was lower the volume of the 2nd & 3rd as they would have then not been so 'shocking' a start and would have also balanced with the following segments. Related to mixing purely from BiaB Styles, I really wish whoever decided on stereo channel biases and the gains of individual instruments would pay more attention to balances. For example, some solo instruments in some Styles are way, way too low in volume, while often other instruments are too loud; then some instruments are given extreme left or right channel biases, which are really too far in either direction. The B3 organ I use a lot of defaults to extreme right - though I switch it to left - but it would be better if it was a little closer to centre. I'm currently working on a new instrumental which uses the "Heliotrope Hazy Rock Soloist" Guitar2 solo, which also defaults to the extreme right which makes it sound like the guitarist is playing 'stage right' in the wings. So I had to load it as 2 tracks, 1 with the channel switched to make it sound central as pushing the pan in Audacity to 100% left doesn't do the job. Ditto the B3 organ. Re getting the final mix right, it seems I hit a subject Ron, Mario and Vic empathised with, Vic mentioning everything finally sounding right, then once the track's uploaded "it sounds off." That I really relate to!  I upload to YouTube first and having waited over and hour for my recent remix of "Zuzu" to load I cringed when I first played the video as before the upload it sounded perfect and suddenly it didn't. So I deleted the post and made a single change before re-uploading it and after another long wait I played the video and something else sounded wrong! But I left it as it was as I wasn't confident I'd get it right a 3rd time. I've since done a better mix, but if I re-post it it'll be a year away assuming I live that long!  And finally, re jazz, Elliot wrote "Nice smooth jazz piece"; Al wrote "Very nice jazz!", but Ray wrote "I wouldn't call it jazz …" I'm very often confused by genres and sub- and sub-sub-genres, but I think Elliot's "smooth jazz" is right here as "smooth jazz" really covers a very wide range of 'styles'.
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