Metal Mixing Standarts

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The only real standard I know of for metal mixes is that you make everything louder than everything else.
 
Andy Sneap mixed Deliverance, Opeth's 6th album. Steven Wilson, the singer from Porcupine Tree (from memory) produced the clean vocals on that album. Apart from that, SW produced and mixed Blackwater Park, and produced, mixed, and mastered Damnation.

I'm not a big fan of Andy Sneaps mixes, but that could be because I can't stand most of the bands he works with, so I'm a bit biased.
 
Opeth is a good band, just way overrated in my opinion. My friend is nuts about them and I always tell him I can't stand them just to spite them. I have to admit I haven't heard too many Sneap mixes, but the ones I have heard didn't impress me all that much.
 
I never even though that a mix could lack bass, highs, and mids, all at once!! And mine does... that sux ass... :(

Reading the other posts, if you are doing a lot of serious cuts between 80hz-3khz that is why. That is where 95% of the most important frequencies live.
 
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