midtempo arrangement practice

probably at least 50-100 EQ/gain automations, automating gain and/or frequency of ableton EQ8 nodes... bout 60% of the time working on this was doing EQ automations. automations over 4/8 bars, or sometimes for fills etc it would be smaller segments of time. i dont think theres any automation happening during the drop, except the last 4 beats of the drop, just everything playing over the top of each other. but the EQ automations are everywhere else in the track. been listening on repeat so the melodies are all probably trash. i think its kind of melodically weak but i like the EQ automations

are EQ automation and volume leveling even more important than the sounds you use? probably... a track with shitty presets and decent EQ automation would probably sound better than a track with good presets and no EQ automation, at least for this type of music..? i might rely on EQ automation too much though. but i suck at arranging so if it works i can learn other parts of arrangement doing it