I've made a significant business shift going all in on video work.  As I have talked about before soundtracks are very important for video.  

For the last year and a half all of the custom sound tracks I've made have been ITB programmed with midi with additional guitars using amp sims, mixed on ear buds.  

I have finally been able to get my studio set up to create music quickly using live drums, bass, guitar amps and my grand piano.  I still program orchestral instruments.  

In order to make the numbers work I can't take more than 8 hours to make a 5 min sound track from writing to final mix.  The song that I uploaded uses acoustic drums, bass, and guitars. Orchestral is programmed. I am refining my template every time I mix. This is the second song I've recorded in the new setup.  It was 6.5 hours. There are a ton of compromises but it will work.  I export the full song and also stems so that I can mix and match, create loops and edit in Final cut when I am using it for video.  I'd love some feedback.  Also I chose to upload this to the A/V forum because it is used in Video. I hope that was the correct call. 

As a sound track there are significant times of a repetitive loop for talking head shots to have space etc. 

P.S. Glad to be back. I hope to be back even more now that things are settling out.