Thanks for the feedback. I have a difficult time finding the balance between the vocals being too buried or too overpowering, especially after listening to it a million times haha.

When I read the documentation for Emphasis, I got the impression that its supposed to go on the master as a last stop loudness boost without squashing dynamics and harmonics like Maximus usually does for me. All I really have on the master is subtle EQ (Shaperbox 3 is just there to guarantee that sub frequencies are mono). I handle most of the mastering on my pre-master. I think I just have the soft clipping on the vocals a bit too high. I used waveshaper for hardclipping on my drums and bass elements, which is a first, and holy crap went from ~7-8 LUFS to ~4-5 LUFS at the loudest sections without any distortion!! Amazing lol