I disagree, there is a lot of frequency battles between the drums guitars and synths, Most of the reason it sounds cluttered. drums need space to breath, they are all over the place.
The whole mix could be tightened more.
Mastering would only accentuate the issues.
I honestly think if you are paying for mastering its more worth it for professional mixing rather than mastering. If its mixed well it won't need mastering...
make a second track with the same kick, and turn it into a sub kick. Brink out the high kids in the original kick.
Major high pass on the OH and Hihat. Down till about 700-1000 HZ
try a more aggressive compressor on the snare with a gated verb.
Put the drums through their own bus compressor and...
I would say move the mic back(if you can). Air makes the best compressor. And it will give more room for the vocal to breath naturally. giving you that 'transparent' sound.
Drums sound too fake for the rest of the mix.
Too much verb on the vox...and is somewhat buried.
the lowend is amateurish. Lowend is where a lot of people get scared and cut it way too much. Thats where the balls are lacking...
Now levels is another thing. It seems like you were going for loud...
A little Dead actually... The drums are missing stereo spread, kick is gone. Maybe too much verb on the box here and there. Bass doesn't fit too well. Guitars i can't comment on cuz they were just tracked perfectly hehe
FYI. This was all done with an H4N and an iMac with cubase 4le.
The drums were done with the H4n in 4 channel mode, Behringer B1 on kick, 57 on snare, onboard xy mic for OH, toms were a pair of Naiants run into a tascam 22-2(yes indeed)
steel strings were a stereo spread of an old Rode N2, and...
Original...:guitar:
https://soundcloud.com/aharonmendlowitz/13-remaster
Knock yourself out...:listeningmusic:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/gsum33vckp5752e/zOSYEjhler
There are Two files of each track(added 24b in name), not sure how that happened, but not a big deal...
And I think I forgot to...