I have trouble getting the vocals much higher than that without it sounding like karoake. I'm fairly happy with the pace itself , but I believe that it's yhe lack of "fullnesss" to the recording that cause the pace to drag.....my next investment will be a pair of decent passive monitors(by by optimus lx5) and some sort of of preamp/compressor channel strip device. Oh yeah, the only reverb that I had at the time was an old Biamp spring reverb unit.