@Luke Despain Really loved the track and working with it, Luke.

Hmmh, I did already upload it in my own topic and went to bed for some time... Export time - shortly before 12 AM Pacific. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ay8a5emYglekQ4mXXUKtCc2cb-WzIkqW/view?usp=sharing Here's the topic I posted it in: https://www.skool.com/mastering/missed-the-ftm-deadline-would-love-feedback-though

Hey there Petter! Thank you for your feedback! Not sure about the BPM, I was pretty sure I did everything right. I think it's different dynamics compared what you're used to hear; I think, if the sample rate didn't convert right, it should be too fast and not slower (I'm using 44.1k). Yes, you're right about the limiter, it was the final adjustment to find the sweet spot and for the real sweet spot there should've been some slight volume automation. A little before 9 AM German time I told my self "nah, no more". I thought deadline was 12 AM Pacific anyway. The piano I fought with a lot, I wanted to try smart:chain on it, to figure if I would consider getting it (not really a fan of it so far, used it on 3 tracks total here). It over-exaggerated a honky resonance in this piano and with my volume automation, it got to the max volume too fast and a couple of slightly nasty "piano honks" are there. There are a lot of adjustments in Kirchhoff on it, post-bounce. As for the "drone type sound", I really liked it, just a tiny bit overlimited at couple of spots, I guess. Maybe a tiny bit of compression would save it instead of volume automation or dialing back limiter threshold.

For me, a huge "excuse-killer" would be to be able to afford a really good computer, dedicated solely to production (and maybe also video editing for uploads). Usually, I get up and feel pretty hungover (doesn't really matter if I had alcohol last night (and how much of it) or any additional medication), start my day by checking mail and surfing, usually non-production-related stuff, drink coffee, and "wake up" hours later with the thought "damn, I wanted to work on music today, but after all that coffee and war-related "doom-scrolling" I feel uneasy enough to say, I am now too overwhelmed to start. And to start I need to close my browsers, mail client and everything else, reboot and close some auto-starting apps and stop some services in Windows (one service, actually, but not so important). Often there might be something really huge I started downloading some time ago and can't wait to finish, some backup integrity checks that might be running since the previous night, etc., that makes me wait longer even if I'd otherwise really reboot and start right now. An important problem, not related to that, is that I hate my flat, and most of the year between about 7 AM and almost 12 PM the sun shines so bright into my living-room window that I can't read or recognize almost anything on my left display and it's often way harder to read on the main one (they are angled towards each other and stand on the angled-standing desk very close behind my sloped window). So, if I would be more insistent and repeat at least once a week to my brother that I really need his help to move that damn desk, which I first said to him many years ago, the situation would improve a lot without any additional investment. Another (additionally helping) way would be to stop being a "tab maniac" that knows no real match to himself, but I suspect that quitting tobacco for good, which I stopped trying years ago, would be a much easier endeavor.

BTW, I complained about T-RackS on this page, but I used TR5 Classic Clipper in the master and it was quite great, so I feel better about having grabbed this suite. Just not very suited for mixing in case of my PC's performance.

I dunno. I took a break from this track for some days and today I feel like the version 4, especially the lossless original, is fine enough to leave it like that. Yes, I wanted to give it more impact here and there, but it's good as is, considering it's already public, I don't mind those drums' tone much anymore. I would like to work on another track, part of an EP I wanted to prepare with 5 tracks from 2020, I want to mix and master all of them (though one of them needs to be "rescue-mastered" only as - TADA! - the project itself was either not saved or lost later). I'll start tomorrow and will start a new thread sometime soon after, I guess. But still not decided if I rather should wait until new OS is in place and everything installed and activated, I really wanted to start to do that, but it'll take maybe over a month total until everything's done. And should my RAM be the reason for some of the bugs I experienced, it might be best to wait until new modules are purchased and arrive. Depends of how soon I'd get them. So in the meantime I maybe could continue to work indeed.

@John Rowley Came to tell you that YouTube-searching those headphones when I found out about them only showed me one X1-related video, showing exactly where to import those files :) Tell us after some time if you got blown away by the new fidelity :) Which ones did you have before? I was "bragging" how I was going to get them and a couple of things more, but my monetary situation told me to wait. Maybe April 1st? In the meantime, having trained my ears a bit, I got to appreciate my Neumann NDH20 a bit more again :)