problem with guitars

[skip ransom]

ok now, I swear to you, I used an sm 57 on the ampeg half stack and 2nd guitar on a marshall, and it sounded great played on my 8 track tascam digi recorder through m-audio awesome monitors (technical term right there) but I sent the tracks to my computer and mixed it down with the drum and bass and well quite honestly ... the guitars sound like they cant stay centralized, they sound analogish and vague ( the track is at www.purevolume.com/skipransom listen to "turn the lights on and do it again" to full understand)

i did all the eq and everything that should have made them perfect.
i used cool edit to mix it down, i have other programs but i didnt feel like using them (magix samplitude)

maybe its just the guitar amps them selves? they sounded alright in the room.

any help please.
-drummer in distress.

[scrubs]

Originally Posted by skip ransom

ok now, I swear to you, I used an sm 57 on the ampeg half stack and 2nd guitar on a marshall, and it sounded great played on my 8 track tascam digi recorder through m-audio awesome monitors (technical term right there) but I sent the tracks to my computer and mixed it down with the drum and bass and well quite honestly ... the guitars sound like they cant stay centralized, they sound analogish and vague ( the track is at www.purevolume.com/skipransom listen to "turn the lights on and do it again" to full understand)

i did all the eq and everything that should have made them perfect.
i used cool edit to mix it down, i have other programs but i didnt feel like using them (magix samplitude)

maybe its just the guitar amps them selves? they sounded alright in the room.

any help please.
-drummer in distress.

Sounds like you have a case of mono.

That is, there is no stereo separation in your mix. Perhaps during your mixdown, everything went to mono, rather than stereo. You need to get those guitar tracks out of the middle (pan them to the sides) so they are not competing with each other, the bass, and the vocal.

Try remixing with the guitars panned 40%-100% to either side. Make sure you are mixing down to a stereo track on your computer as well. If you have some recording software and a decent soundcard, it would be best to send each instrument to a separate track in your computer and mix it there.