Great advice!mjudge55 wrote: ↑Fri Jul 26, 2019 10:27 pm My humble advice is to go back to your arrangement. Without any eq, compression, or shenanigans, it should sound 90% “there” just by setting levels and pan. If it doesn’t, your parts aren’t complimenting each other, either where they land in time, what notes they are, what frequency range they’re in, or the space they take up in the stereo field. More basically, does the tune resonate emotionally and aesthetically? Be honest with yourself about that, you can’t fix it in the mix.
Even experienced composers/producers do not always take these aspects into account.