After viewing that clip, I watched a few more, including one about keeping it simple, and one about "tightening up" background vocals. I watched that one 3 times. Then I came home and put what he said into practice, and remixed a 2 year old song that was a total cluster mess, and in just 90 minutes or so, after singing the vocal again to remove a track that was so drenched in reverb and EQ (all outboard so I could not get rid of them) that it was inaudible, some gain reductions, some sliding to line up BGV with lead vocals, slight panning, better level blending.... amazing the difference a little bit of knowledge makes.

And to think that at the time the song was done I thought it was done well.... after listening to the old version and the version... wow.

I am using the new 1040XTRAEZ form this year. It has just 2 lines.

1. How much did you make in 2023?
2. Send it to us.