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Im just not hearing the doubling effect.The rhythym guitars sound like they are panned straight up and down instead of wide left/right....am I listening to the latest mix?I just downloaded after you posted a little while ago...
 
Strong rock, I dig the guitars. Vocal is right up front where it belongs. The guys above have excellent mix suggestions.
I couldn't hear much snare, and would suggest going to a more straight-up kick/snare pattern in order to allow the track to breathe. With the toms accenting the beat, it seems harder to find the pocket.
A small logic note concerning lyrics. The line "...as day turns into dawn" might be better written as "...as night turns into dawn."
I know snow can make one lose a day or a week or a life, but the line as written seems confusing.
Overall the track sounded good and strong to me, with the exception of lack of snare pop.
Rock on!

Mark
 
Man, now something else to work on. I need to get Sammi to put down some real drums for me. Anyway, Kramer, the latest version is up now. I cloned the rythum guitars and panned left and right all the way. I think we got a couple other things fixed also. Take a listen now if you will.
 
Pretty cool. Nice retro feel, and I love the vocal. Like the lead guitar too.

A few ideas for mixing:

Compress the vocals to even out the level a wee bit. Be careful that you don't make the vocal too dull by doing this.

Maybe take a bit of low-end off the toms - they might be a little less over-bearing that way.

Bring the snare to dead-centre - it sounds really weird over on the left.

The distorted chords *definitely* sound like they're mixed to the centre.

If you only have one rhythm guitar track, simply copying it and panning one left and one right will NOT give a double-tracked effect. If you do this, it'll just sound like it's mixed to the centre.

If you can't get a separate rhythm track recorded, you can do a couple of things:

1. Delay one of the tracks very slightly - this can help "separate" two identical tracks.

2. EQ the two tracks slightly differently - this also helps give a better double-tracked feel.

Ideally you want to do what Kramer sugegsted - record a second rhythm guitar track, and use the original track on one side, the new track on the other. Even in this situation, using slightly different EQ on each can help separate two very similar rhythm tracks.

I'm a sloppy enough player that two runs through the same track don't even sound slightly similar! ;)

Hope this helps

Alastair
 
I think the problem now is that the drum are so "stereoized" that it's causing the rest of the mix to suffer...you want to get the kick and snare dead center.Cymbals and high-hats can be spread a little but kick and snare should be panned straight up and down.
 
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