Teaser mix check - First song I produce and record at home

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Hi all,
I'm excited to have finished my first track as a sort of producer for a friend from a local church.
I worked with him to make a song originally written on an acoustic guitar, come to life as a "full band" song.
We recorded everything at my home, I mixed and "mastered" the single, and would like to get some feedback what I could have done better.

Here is the full version of the song. I hope you enjoy it.

https://soundcloud.com/a-different-logic/josh-feldpausch-how-many-times

Cheer everyone.
 
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Good vocal, good vocalist. Drums are a bit too loud. Pretty good mix, really. At :06 there's a loud pick/string noise that goes on. Can that be edited out or at least pulled back considerably?
 
Sounded like a very modern mix. Which means no bass guitar. It's there but it's more like a sine wave around 60-150 Hz without any further definition.
The mix was very loud. Did you by any chance compress it a bit?
 
BroKen_H said:
Good vocal, good vocalist. Drums are a bit too loud. Pretty good mix, really. At :06 there's a loud pick/string noise that goes on. Can that be edited out or at least pulled back considerably?
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Thanks! I think you're talking about the noise when changing chords. I didn't think to edit it because it didn't bother me that much. Just kinds sounds like a natural thing to me.

Schwarzenyaeger said:
Sounded like a very modern mix. Which means no bass guitar. It's there but it's more like a sine wave around 60-150 Hz without any further definition.
The mix was very loud. Did you by any chance compress it a bit?
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Yeah, I usually add a lot more bass grind to my rock mixes, but it was hard to get it to come through and not sacrifice the other instruments, so I focused it on the low end.
There's about 2-3 db of gain reduction on the buss compressor. I used Fabfilter's Pro-L to bring it up to volume with my reference track.
 
Well what's your reference track?
This was a lot louder than anything else that I've been listening to today.
I'd just leave the comp off. It might help bring out the low end.
 
Schwarzenyaeger said:
Well what's your reference track?
This was a lot louder than anything else that I've been listening to today.
I'd just leave the comp off. It might help bring out the low end.
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Reference track was Newsboys "Forever Reign". My loudest peaks are around -7.5dB as per the meters in Cubase. I can back off to about -8.0db, but below that it begins to sound comparatively lower than other professional tracks. Since it's just a single, the volume difference that could happen from say, the previous song into this one, and from this one to the next, becomes a little annoying. So I opted for a little extra volume.

My comp has a low pass filter. I could bring that up and leave the bottom end uncompressed instead of turning the compressor off completely. I like the vibe it gave the song.
 
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