Hi all
For various reasons mainly revolving upheaval in my personal life I have not written or recorded a new song for a long time. It's amazing how slow and difficult the process was after such a break! I'm glad to say I am now back in front of Sonar and have thoroughly enjoyed recording this one. I know it's not loud enough, but when I tried compressing it squashed all the dynamics - I will have to read up on that again! Would be interested in any comments. 
 
https://soundcloud.com/bill-saunders/you-turned-my-world-around
 
All the best, Bill
 

Hey Bill.  Nice tune.  Glad to see you back on the boards.  
Good arrangement.  For the overall level, put a limiter on the master output and set it at like 0.95 db.  Get all your busses feeding it and don't let the limiter reduce more than about 4 db.  This should get your overall output level close to .95 db without too much squash.  It's worth a try anyway.  
 
I always love creativity and original songs over super technique so I really like what you did here.  The backgrounds work well too.  
 

Hi Rimshot, thanks for your suggestions and kind words. I will certainly try that over the weekend and I look forward to listening to yours and other members songs over the weeks ahead. Good to be back! Bill