Thanks Chattbox.
I want to thank everyone who dropped by in my thread. The feedback helped a lot - especially listening to the remixes done by Dogman, Llarion and DonF. The comparative balance issues and the different approaches helped me re-align my own sense of sonic balance in the mix.
I've done a final (yeah, sure
) mix of it and just replaced the uploaded file linked in the original post. I think I've got a pretty good balance now between the preamp tooby midrange emphasis I used in the tracking (to deal with the piezo tone), a balanced EQ spectrum, and part clarity.
Changes from the original mix... I substituted a multiband limiter for the chained broadband limiters I had used on the lead bluesy guitar on the right to control its lower mids, boosted its highs above 7 kHz a couple dBs and put just a touch of delay on it. I also reduced the gain of the chained limiters on the left solo gtr by just a bit to make it a bit cleaner. Lastly, I put a high pass filter at 100 Hz on the nylon chunk-chunk-chunk backing gtr to clean up its low end a bit.
Thanks again.
Tim
Had to laugh about the plagiarism thing… the Beatles’ songs are so guitaristic in keys used and original arranging style that solo arrangements have pretty small things that differentiate them. In a sense, we're all just doing transcriptions maybe. My arrangement here grew out of the solo version done by your cohort at Hal Leonard, Larry Beekman, which I’ve played for a number of years.