One last try at vocals?

JS:Misc/noisegate: -50, 50, 10, 100
JS: Liteon?nonlinear: 100,000,32,22.93
XHip(R): Size-97, Diffuse-76, Time-27, W-0
ReaEQ: bell shape cutting out below 700 and above 6.3k
JS:Guitar/tremolo: Freq-34, A=-2, SS=0
JS:Stillwell/realoud
ReaDelay: Length=-0.05, Feed=-2.2dB
Guitar/distortion: gain=-7dB, maxx vol -2
SIR(R): theater plus reverse
Using up 22% of my CPU.

Sounds OK at the moment. Will wait and see what I think later.

Unfortunately at 22% CPU for a single vocal track... I'm otherwise using synth1 (CPU friendly). Which some say sounds like crap. Occasionally I think it sounds good. I don't know that I actually have anything else that's really better... Although I suppose an analogue hardware synth would probably manage a better bassline.

Maybe could manage a decent bass with the ESQ-1, but I haven't bothered trying to figure out midi in. And playing a really fast bassline would be a pain.... Also the arps, and oscillations, gate, etc, I'm using on this track, not sure they are even possible with the ESQ1. Laziness basically. And something else probably. Many years from now I'll probably finally get around to midi-in. After so many years I'm finally learning all the knobs instead of presets.

Composing / recording in general: It sounds good. And then as you work it starts sounding bad. You leave for a while come back and it sounds good again, then again it starts sounding bad. Sometimes you're just getting tired of hearing it over and over. Sometimes you come back and it still sucks. But maybe you're in the wrong mood still at that moment? So you came back later, and later and so on. Occasionally you pull up a finished song from years ago and think it sounds awful. Other times it sounds so amazing you (I) get so annoyed that no one ever gave it (or anything else I ever did) the time of day.