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Well, Nova, to me these tracks are the masterpieces of sound design in this jam. Huge bravo to you! 'Navigating the Astral Rift' is truly what I love about this style.

If I may offer my opinion just on the mastering (the mix is great): it seems a little too 'crushed.' Loosening up your compressors/limiters a bit, even if you lose a little loudness, would allow you to gain some spatialization and get back a bit of 'air' (headroom/dynamic range).

Maybe you should stick with K14 ;) 

Congrats again, I'm going to give it another listen right now!

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I had to look up K14 because I didn't know that was the name of a mixing/mastering standard, so I was a tad confused for a second lol.

You're totally right about the loudness and bad crispiness, as after listening to all the other jam tracks (yours included) I swung the pendulum too far in the other direction when mastering and I definitely didn't have to go so hard on the clipper and limiter. I find my setup tends to push me towards an overwhelming high and mid bubble as-is, and it's been a pain getting my ears to go back to hearing less of that and more bass as a "good mix" if that makes sense. Thank you for the feedback, I will take a gander at that technique and try to incorporate it next time! :)