[dkelley]

we all went through that on our first mixes. that's the process of learning how to mix...

there's no magic answer. listen to it and try to decide what you think is wrong. go remix it while trying to compensate for that sound you don't like. for example, probably your kick and snare need compression and are basically too loud in the mix in their uncompressed state. monitors can handle very loud things like badly mixed and uncompressed drums WAY better than consumer speakers.

remix, listen on cruddy stereo. remix, listen on cruddy stereo.

or better yet, do what most of us did back then and some of us (like me) still do. keep a cruddy stereo or two in your playback monitor area and mix on that as well as on your good monitors. switch back and forth regularly. get it to sound great on both sets of speakers. if you can make it sound awesome on logitech $40 speakers and on krks, you're on your way to learning the first steps of mixing.

cheers,
Don