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No, I'm going to have to say the mixing (or in this case the lack of mixing) is really not having a good effect on your resulting sound.
Because you're using EW, and a lot of EW, you may think you can get away with just adjusting levels and adding some light verb to SD.
Not so.
Not everything is Clarinets and Trumpets.
At the bottom half of the second minute you slowly introduce some kind of brass choir with a solo trumpet amidst some chord-work. The problem here is you waste an opportunity to provide us with any substantial orchestrational ideas to emphasize the shape and strength of your main theme.
You write better than you orchestrate, and that's really problematic.
It's okay to start out with a lonely trumpet in the beginning, but at 2:00 you have some kind of shift that really demands an orchestrational shift as well. Again, at 2:25 as well, you have a major shift and an attempt to be bold but instead it's all limp and lame because there isn't any orchestrational power behind the statement. It keeps it far less than bold.
The incedental parts are tedious, mostly because there isn't any kind of orchestral diversity but also because the solo clarinet just... meanders.
Mixing-wise, man, there is a lot to do here. First of all, place your instruments, place them on the virtual stage. There is distance involved, that should be reflected in verb and low-pass filters.
I think you have your BOMBO player sitting on top of your second chair violin.
When you start treating this like an actual orchestra, you'll start hearing one.
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- Dan
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