Okay, for you that might be interested, I've made a few changes:
I reduced the compression on the vocals a bit.
Per IronFlippy's observation, I fiddled with the eq on the guitar and vocals to try and balance them in the mix a bit better.
I reduced some of the compression on the bass just a tiny bit and bumped the overall volume.
I balanced the pan on the guitar solo.
Some of the things I didn't change:
Johnnymegabyte: I tinkered with making the bass line the opening riff...actually a very cool idea. Something just didn't sound right to me though when I did it. Probably either because I just cut and pasted a piece of the main riff and the eq sounded funny or because I've listened to this about a billion times and the guitar intro is tattoed on me.
Turtlishous: Really I'm here to show you guys what the perfect mix sounds like
Just kidding...I value this board's collective opinions greatly. I've got that middle guitar riff at the same volume as the intro riff. I really don't think it's too loud. I've tried it at lower volumes, and it always sounds like a big dropoff when it begins or a big bump when the other instruments come in.
Rayc: I'm afraid by boosting it at 3k it may make it sound too slappy or pingy. I boosted pretty hard around 800 to make it jump out in the middle some. Listen to this mix and see if what I did to the guitars helped out (or hurt) the bass.
Once again, thanks guys, and I hope these changes work for the better!!
Brad
P.S...here's the link so you don't have to go back to the top.
http://home.earthlink.net/~boo.radley/Songs.htm