Blues Thing

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I'm not nearly as experienced as many on here but here's my tuppence worth:
I liked the funky drums at the start, & really liked the rhythm guitar tone. The mix feels a little crowded to me; I'd probably have a play with separating the guitars a bit more by panning one left & one right, or maybe EQing the lead to sound a little less dark.
 
I like the 'Kiko drum compression thing. But the crunchy stereo delay guitar on the outsides feels like it rushing or something. It needs to lay back in and support that hat pattern groove. That other mono guitar in there sounds solid. (A touch of Gary Duncan' there? ;)
Last, nice nasty lead work. Now let it sting a bit. Back of on the attack time, or the compression in general there?

Rock

should bite. :D
 
Thanks for the encouragement and feedback.

For the drums, I have to give credit to the Beta Monkey Drum Loops I bought and that arrived in the mail the day I recorded this. It was my first time working with audio drum loops, so I threw this together in an afternoon as a test. I did the guitar work, and improvised everything, so I apologize that it's not as tight as it could be.

I'm kind of new to mixing and I'm trying to evaluate my ability to track accurately with studio monitor headphones and laptop speakers. My first bounce sounded awful on my laptop, so I threw a high pass filter across the mix at 2K and rebalanced it to sound decent on laptop speakers, then removed the filter. So now it sounds pretty dark, but it's OK on my laptop and on my headphones.

I agree that the guitars seem to be competing with one another, even though I already have the rhythm part panned fully left and right. I'm thinking they are competing for the same frequencies, so I am trying to figure out how best to handle that. I'm thinking of trying to use EQ filters to separate the guitars into different bands. I'm also considering trying to use one track to drive a sidechain on compressing the other. Do either of those sound like good ideas? Woudl it be better to use a different guitar and amp for the rhythm part, so there is more contrast in the tone of the two guitars?

Thanks again for feedback. I'll try and seriously compose something once I fugure out what I am doing a little better.
 
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