Please Critique this Rock Mix!

[Copeland]

Hey gearslutz! Got another lil project I'm hoping you can take a wack at! Please tell me anything you don't like about it!!!

I know there is a lot of competition going on in the mix. It sounds like everything is kinda fighting with the guitars...
Guitar solo changes level a little in the middle.

Not too spacious of a mix either...

Your suggestions are greatly appreciated!!

UPDATED: 4-14-01 New Mix w/ some fixes! Please check it out!

[Copeland]

40 downloads and no suggestions? =[

[Autocrat]

I'll take a stab at it. . .I like the vibe. I'd push the vocals up a bit so it won't seem like you're fighting the guitars.
Maybe a little more high end on the drums? I'm on headphones.

[drakewire]

Its as if everything was recorded wonderful and the engineer went out for lunch on the vocals.
The recording is excellent, drums, guitar, bass, etc...
The vocals dont sit in the mix at all, they are buried...
Push them up...
let them have some fun sitting on the top of everything...
Then this will have "that sound"

[Copeland]

Hey I updated the mix with some of your fix suggestions!

If you could please critique it (again), that would be freaking awesome! Thanks!

[Unclenny]

Tell you what.......

I hear so much stuff here that is hard panned....guits to one side, keys to the other...vox right up the gut.

Stereo guit tracks, a little stereo delay......there is a lot of space in the middle of the sonic landscape that can be used.

I like this tune.

[drakewire]

You have finally achieved "that sound"...
This recording is excellent...

[mil.co.pro]

I'm a bit of a newb and maybe I'm crazy, but if feels and sounds as though the bass where panned somehow. I know it's a preference thing, but I think that doing something with the bass might bring everything else together. The tone sits so close to the guitar for me, granted , I am a newb. Great job overall though. Let me know how bad my advice is, it's the only way i'll learn!

I <3 Milwaukee

[Copeland]

nah, you're not a newb, I've been listening to it and I keep feeling weighed to the right of the image. during the mix i played with 2 layers of the bass track very short degrees out of sync (like from .1ms out of phase to 1ms out of phase to get different tones and have it sit back further in the mix).

I'm pretty sure its a phase issue that's sending the image right. good ear, sir.