@Paint Masteringdotca better off with the AP Master Suite.

@Paint Masteringdotca I don't care about personalities. The free tools he has are excellent. The first thought the wall always gets bloody. As far as bloat and overhead they can't be worse than Harrison. On my 24c 3.5Ghz 192Gb 1600 ECC Ram and stack of ssds, 2 AMD & 1 Nvidia GPS(s)I turn Apples in to sauce. Not a bloat fan, but not concerned in the least. I never have any workflow or routing issues, ever, because my main daw is Reaper.

Well done Dane! Following~

Fantastic! Well balanced, clean no mud. There snare is a little hot, bright and in front. You may consider an experiment/practice of pushing it back. A slight reverb plate, round off some the high transient with very little extra compression. Then gain it down til it is sitting behind the vox. Maybe a little panning left to let the vox punch through on the light snare. . . The star is the vox and the snare is a little distracting in the lighter areas of the track. This one move will add a lot more depth. I wouldn't change anything else. If I were the customer I'd be very very happy with this! Great job!

@Norman Rekitt thanks Norman! My spin on this was lots of depth and hard hitting kick to add extra contrast with grit that crescendos with a lot of saturated loud ending. The kick, snare and bass is where I focus extra hard from the get-go. In the end I went in and add a slight reverb with UAD Plate and dialed in the basic eq within it. A little thicker low-end and top tamed down a smidge, which set the snare back exactly where I wanted it, that changed the depth in a huge way. The I backed down the gain -Db and round it over with slight extra compression. Considering all the other tracks I have heard, my track does not bury the vox nor have a lot of space. Mine is far from a perfect mix/master, But, on a short notice short timeline no communication with the band, I like it. I thought that's what Mastering FTM was about foundation, but apparently I must not clearly understand the challenge/assignment. Or, I'm one of a handful. I dono. If we had al 170 tracks posted here we'd all have a better idea. I heard six that we really great and very close to each other. But, that's a snore to me. And moreover, I don't care as a mixer and artist, I'm doing me. I have not interest in conforming all the greats throw out the rulebook. Breaking genre rules is creating a new one. Rules? Ok. Sure. Who the hell wants a plain cheese pizza? Pass. . . I'm happy to get any feedback! If anyone needs help with analog based tracks that tear your head off your neck. . . Let me know! TA!

@Kc Chee Yea KC! Definitely my twist on bland. I don't do bland. Conforming will never get anyone attention, and intention and attention is the actual prize in my world. And that entirely my opinion and stand, which few seem to concur with for some odd reason. I guess being skipped in distro's is their goal. Who f'n knows, it's way above my pay-grade. You want Chef Baker's Hearty Rattlesnake and Beef Stew? Or, Hillshire Farm's beef broth from a room temperature plastic/paper/wax box? Thanks for the feedback brother!

ahh, thought there was a zoom issue again.... thanks!