All thanks to Mark, of course!
The clip is here:
https://youtu.be/hBqm386dvqM

hahaha I see I turned kingmt into making - what an idiot. My excuse is I've been exhausted after another covid episode... but sorry my friend!

Thank you so much! Here's the full album btw:
https://baobousmusic.hearnow.com/step-by-step

Thanks a lot!

I like having lyrics that are not fully specific where pretty much evryone probably recognises a bit of the feeling, even if you haven't been in the exact situation. I hope that applies here too, my new track is a bit more specific... but I think it's still a feeling people can recognise :)

Thanks a lot Paul! Yeah totally looking forward to hear what Mark can do with it :)

Great, thank you CCC!

That's lovely, thank you very much, especially coming from someone who I know is much better at that kind of stuff than I am :)

No, thank YOU :)

I usually don't concentrate very much on the mixing mastering as you know; I try to come to some balance where the vocals can be heard well and no individual instrument pops out unless they have the lead.

Then what I did was (all this in Ableton Live):
- the drums right now are midi (I used to have a practice room with actual real live drums but unfortunately I moved away so I don't have that right now). I use a drum buss for that; I played around a bit with teh settings to give it a bit of punch, but not too much, plus a bit of reverb on the kick and delay on the hats.
- a high pass filter on the bass and guitar (obviously more low on the bass)
- I also tried to shape the mids a bit to give space for the vocals, but as Manuela indicated, not enough
- then the keys again I think a low pass filter
- I added a "sustain" return for the keys
- for the vocals I went lazy and used Ozone Nectar
- finally for the master I used iZotope 10, both this and Nectar with the automatic functions. I find it's generally not worse than what I would do and I find mastering extremely tedious and frustrating :D
Yeah, I'll send you the stems, no worries! I'm in the middle of a house move, so hopefully somewhere next week, is that ok?

Thank you so much for the listen and the compliments :)

That's a lovely comment, thank you so much :)