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''It's the arrangement. It's not very "soulful" or "expressive" at all. Technically, it's very sound and very well played but there's absolutely no emotional content whatsoever. That can NOT be mixed in.
The instrments themselves are pretty bland as well. Again, technically, they sound great. The recording is great, but emotion comes from the performance 1st...recording a distant 2nd....and mix last.
I don't hear much note velocity variation. That has a LOT to do with emotion too.''
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Listening to the mp3 this is generally my view as well. Sometimes in these situations you can write a song as an arrangement , but then go back and treat it as a bit of a sound design opportunity...so-to-speak.
I do think if you want to do the "sound design" work you probably could make this sound more "emotive" ... but it would require the kind of tediousness analogous to a programming sound designer more so than a musician or conventional mix engineer.