I’ve been narrowing my focus of hobbies of late - sat back on the speaker monitor designing in favor of improving my chops through exercise and practice - Also set-up a whole new drum kit from scratch leaving the past kits behind to see what else I can come up with.
Wide spread local power outage - I’m still on generator power and it’s cold out (25*F).
Lost power here tonight while I was mixing this tune that is so slow for a drummer that it is hard to stay alert while playing it - have to eat chocolate to stay in the groove!
I have been working-on the dynamics of the drum-kit voices and got the cymbals a bit more natural sounding so I can do rising crescendos on them now and the rest of the kit sounds more like me playing upon an acoustic kit, finally !
Play this ^ one loudly for your loved ones and, HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Please let me know if the overall balance of instruments and tone sounds OK or not so I can figure out where I need more work . . . (and what playback system you used - headphones, earbuds, car audio, etc . . .).
Final Mix of the last one again - - I brought that grungy killer guitar work up in the mix and leveled all the instruments now that my ears have rested [I can hear detail more acutely].