thank yas for theinsight, all of you, that definitely helped. I did cut a lot of bass.. the original mixes of this song were smothered with bass so this time around I did an extreme cut....indeed the clean guitar is kinda out... i can fix that..... i initially fixed it with autotune, but upon remixing, for some reason after upgrading my computer with an extra gig of ram... running the same amount of plugins was just not going as well before I upgraded.. ftw? anywhoo... this song was plagued with difficulties from the get go...
in terms of the vocals, the quiet vocals were recorded incredibly low... with a shitty dynamic mic and no preamp... so compressing it just increased the noise... so finding a way around that has been a bitch... on most songs I don't sing as quiet, so i rarely have this problem... blahh. its all quite fixable, if i can just get off my ass and do it...
just got my new monitors today.... lets see what happens. Thanks again.
as for the pitchy vocals... mehhh, i'll get the guitars in tune, but dammit, i'll sing in tune if it happens by accident :-D