Thanks Dan.

I agree about the Bass. Im gonna knock of some of the bottom end and Rez peak one of the harmonics of the bass or send it to a distortion Fx with lots of the bottom end EQ'd before the chain. That should give me a bit of definition and let me drop the bass end away.

As for the synth stabs. I wanted to avoid that as it seems to be the (no offence mate) stock answer round here. "Get some synth stabs in."

Im thinking about some soaring strings half way through a la Christian Morgerstern's (RIP) Miscellanous EP on kanzel rant some time ago.