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Let me know what you think!

https://soundcloud.com/henry-halvorson/rainfall-1

-Henry

digging the tune. some good creative and musical ideas. i'd add some more subtle percussion reinforcements and put them in the back of the mix -- just to fill out the rhythm a little more

2 mixing suggestions:
1. it sounds like you have some kind of boosting on the open hat (probably a high shelf) -- try EQing the highs into a LPF otherwise the top end is too harsh (even if the LPF is set to 18-20k)
2. the 808 is a tad bit too clean for my taste -- maybe try subtly mixing in some parallel distortion/parallel compression on it

good stuff. just though i'd share my 3 cents

Very nice track. Have a nice organic feel to it. Reminds me of Odesza.
I'm curious, what did you use for the vocal sample?

A couple thoughts I had while listening to it
1. The vocal sample is always front in the mix. But you have some other background samples that are interesting.Would be nice to pause or set the vocal out of focus (maybe with filter automation) and bring out some of the other samples (for example 3.33) or the hits early in the mix.

2. What if instead of the white noise you used an uplifting extremely high pass synth. You could start high pass set very high and very slow gradually move lower to get a similar sweeping effect. If you put on a couple other subtle filter modulations you get a very similar noise feel but more textured