Thank you Speck. I found the first part of your piano quite structured, so I tried preparing delicate ears to what was coming next by adding a bass solo at the start ;)

I mostly played A minor and a D.

Interesting. I played a few tracks earlier today (before reading this) and I found myself landing mostly on D, A and G (the keyboard/controller is marked).

All those notes are in the A minor key, so that’s perfect ;)

I’m rather curious if a pedal - like the chorus - is usable for you, since it might mess up the range of my annoying hiss. I would appreciate it if you let me know.

Well, I like to think I can use anything. But I believe most remixers prefer straight mono no fx material. Clean starting point.

Btw - the noise reduction plug-in that’s part of my main editor (Sound Forge) seems to clean up that buzz rather nicely (not the buzz in the beginning of this track, which is intentional(?) and I like a lot, but your usual buzz) with one click of the mouse. Probably takes a certain frequency range out of the rest of the sound but I think it’s a pretty narrow one and when I put it in the mix I add a little reverb (usually, not always) and all is well. At least to my ears. How about yours?

Yes, in your new upload it sounds great. I don’t miss anything sound-wise. In fact, it might even sound better (wider range) then the original recording.

The first buzz is from the (battery-feeded) milk mixer, it intervenes with the bass pickup. Btw, the chorus is not fx but a real effect pedal. So it actually influences your playing, which I really like (to me, fx just adds some effect afterwards, which can be great, but it doesn’t make you play any different).

I was kind of worried that the effect pedal made my (usual) hiss uncontrolable. Glad it didn’t. Certain songs just call for it. Now I might use some more in the future :)

Thank you Snowflake, appreciated :)

Thanks Rey!