The kick drew my attention too, but it wasn't the beater, it was the fact that, through earbuds, it's the single biggest sound in the mix. To my ears, rather than just anchor the tune, it dominates.
Good jangly tune.
Really, really tasty. I love how this one moves. Are you keeping it as is, or will you repurpose it into a song with singing?
What's the advantage of heavier strings on a lap steel?
On earbuds:
* The kick is fine, I think.
* Listened to 'Sheena is a Punk Rocker'. (It moves similarly to yours and the bass drives that one, too.) Your mix is darker. Your bass is more prominent. Your mix sounds better. But I understand why you're wondering about the bass.
* The bass 'solo'...
I like the tune and the delivery, but I'd experiment with putting more space around the vocal.
Also, it's a bit disorienting when the vocal sort of disappears for a while the first time you sing 'like a pendulum'. Automation!
I like the first one better - it sounds fuller and more present.
The kick: It's very prominent, but you like prominent, so it fits your style. It fits the tune.
'Piano rock'. I like this tune.
Bring the vocal up and de-boom the bass (turn it down?).
The music's American, but the melody's British, somehow. You've square pegged a round hole - well done!
Your music is one of the reasons I come here.
Fun song with performance issues, recording issues, and mixing issues. I like the big sound you got on the guitar - that's a goodness. Looking at things to improve, I'm thinking that one of the first things to improve is mixing: vocal level and intelligibility. You need to make the quietest...
I wrote, recorded and published five new songs a month for over a year (I had a lot of time on my hands, and it was good to be away from my day job), and then I decided to slow down and do about a song a month for a while. Unlike yourself, I abandoned production standards in favor of sheer...
The 'female' vocal part would stand out more with a muting of the background parts, completely in the first instance, stepwise and graded in the second.
If the tambourine was quieter, it might be even more effective for being subtle.
Really like this one. Also, I like s tune automatically segues into 'Lazy River'. 😎 Like it more each time it hits the eardrums.