Michael's Practice Freelancer Logo Progress 13.10.20

Please note: Initially, I will only need to do these blogposts on Mondays, Tuesdays (and some Thursdays) for 3 weeks (a total of 10 times) because of school*, but I hopefully will continue them afterwards.

*Obviously, I'm not providing services, I'm simply practicing and using Blogger for feedback.

Here is (or was) the most recent iteration of my practice logo I posted in the last blog post*:

This time I took another rather-long-standing problem (the faders have white backgrounds) and fixed it as below: 

But I still don't yet know how to rotate the faders into the right oriientation of being in line with the fader lines (literally), and most of all, I actually got feedback to say it's not a logo (and not just not really looking like one).

*That last post is at https://michaelspracticefreelancerlogos.blogspot.com/2020/10/michaels-practice-freelancer-logo_11.html.

Comments appreciated. Thank you.