Hello Julien! Sorry for not responding sooner. Thanks for listening and also for your kind words about it. That "Egyptian orchestra" bit in Part 3 seemed like a good idea, but by the time I got to the twentieth Tron pass I was heartily sick of the part! The rest of it is fairly standard choir, three violins and organ pad parts on the Tron. Again, the punctuated part was a fun little thing that came almost as an afterthough whilst I was writing it. I'm still ambivalent about the way the guitar solo destroys the second silence, but perhaps the second time round wasn't as effective as the first anyway and the solo didn't seem to work as well any other way. I think sometimes I probably overdo the number of parts and ought to start ruthlessly editing things. Mostly I can hear clearly everything that's there, but then I know it's there and know what to listen out for (but sometimes it all just clumps into a big mushy mess, but then I'll hear it in a completely different way to most listeners with listening in great detail and many, many times over!). I do worry though about whether there is reasonable separation between all the parts and whether people can hear them: I don't really want it to be a monolithic wall of sound, more a wall where, if you focus yours ears in, you can hear the individual bricks if you want to, rather than just a big mush. I was struck when listening to some Yes (some people would say that served me right!) just how distorted the drums sometimes sounded. I've seen it mentioned about other 70s mixes, that the engineers hit the tape hard when tracking drums, for the sound and qualities the tape saturation gave. I thought I'd give it a try and have a go at capturing a bit of that old-school drum vibe. It did seem to give the drums a little bit of extra presence to cut through the mix in the loud bits where the drums were most full on (and hence distorting most). Thanks again for listening. I've no idea when I'll get onto the next sections -- I think I need a bit of a break from this piece and I have one or two other projects where people are demanding my time. Plus, I move about as quickly as an asthmatic ant with some heavy shopping ;-) Best wishes Q Julien Claassen wrote: