The mix on this I'm not so sure of - something is bothering me about it.
I took a listen on crappy phone speakers and the mix sounded nice and clear to me, which is a great sign for a mix! I don't know if that's one of your intended listening formats, but if it sounds mixed well on crap mono speakers then something's going right.
I like the music quite a bit; this piece is my kind of epic. The brass in particular is very exciting and I appreciate the imitative contrapuntal lines; they add harmonic depth to the composition while keeping it from becoming over-complicated. I think you struck a nice balance here. The dynamics (as much as they could come through on phone speakers) had a good contrast and kept the "stream of consciousness" structure of the music from becoming too static and boring.
A slight few of the high string phrases caught my ear as sounding a bit phase-y. There's most likely some kind of release sample overlap going on (an easy fix). I don't know what it is about string sample libraries but this kind of sample-overlap sound always seems to crop up with them compared to other orchestral samples. I can't remember where exactly in the music this happened but it was so sparse that it didn't detract from the music, IMO, but it *was* noticable. To me, at least: I highly doubt a listener who doesn't have orchestral sample sounds burned into their ears would be able to tell, FWIW.
- Sam