Confessions - new prog-rock song UPDATED MAY 9TH

I've been waiting fer you laddy...lol Great tune...love the energy out the gate.... I think your corect about the mid clutter...but i think your working it with the panning ...love the breaks i hear...i am missing soem of the bottom end tho.... love the tune for sure.. hope your well me brudda and nice to see you!

Bless me Father for I have listened to, and enjoyed this. It's pretty cool because it's like the drummer is playing the piano :-) I was raised Roman Cathardic, but I'm not practicing anymore because I got so good at it. Pretty good lead guitar work, and I particularly enjoyed the fact that you weren't screaming at me ;-) This is one of your better tunes IMO.

I enjoyed that a lot Mark. Very creative. As Daryl said, totally unpredictable.

Yes, this is very good... love the piano sequences, especially just before the 2 minute mark... really very cool tune... good work Mark...

Well anything Prog gets me sucked in.

The mix is too muddy.

Start with fixing the drums, they have punch but lack clarity, the vocals are almost coming through.  Piano is good.

There is a lot of conflicting mid-frequencies going on.

I like the track, just work on mix.

Good work

neb

Yep. Good effort. Great guitar solo. Constructive criticism, yhe mix does need more work, also the vox are too pitchy for me...some rhytmic anomalies as well. The mix doea lack oomph in the bottom end...but keep at it! Maybe get a little help on the mixes to speed up the process! Always glad to hear new prog

TOM - thanks for stopping by, you know we all miss you guys when you're not around! LYNN - thanks, it's great to have constructive crits, I am having to mix a lot on headphones these days, i'm trying to flip between open-and closed back design but still finding it hard to nail that low-end! ROBBY - i would never scream at you! I wish I had your pipes but oh well....DARYL - hey, cheers, i have high-passed most things, but i think i forgot to get it on the toms which will help clear some space. I shall certainly get the hpf on those drums now!

new mix up fer yer delectation...

There are a lot of great things going on here Mark.

The guitar arpeggios are super fluid.

The singing is fine, but you could use a lot more processing to get them in shape (take it from one who knows!).

Liked the piano break @1:49, but once the beat comes back in @1:58 it kinda falls apart for a bar or two.

The end could be a bit less abrupt.

Mark.

Sculpting of the bass. Did you HPF @ 80HZ? If not try that. If you have trying boosting 2-2.5KHz a bit to get some bite in there.

I'm not a prog rock guy - I don't think? But I like this. I would have liked the vocals to be more defined and not layered as much in the music, but maybe that's not in the style of prog? At times I couldn't really understand, but the times I could made me want to understand the parts. 

i think a dryer or completely dry vocal on this would get the sound I'm thinking of.
MGH - could you send me a version of that? I just want to know if my instincts make sense. I won't share, I just want to hear what I think would create the dynamic I'm looking for in this track. Leave the effects on the spoken parts - "father, etc, etc".

Otherwise - I have no comments because my talent level doesn't allow for it! 

Awesome. I liked it alot! I think I like your accent the best of all!

Hey, Mark,
 
Killer job on this cool and very ambitious piece of progressive rock!
 
Lots of really unique twists and turns featured throughout the well textured instrumental performances and the vocals are top notch.  I really like how the layered guitar parts and piano actually set a back drop for the vocals and fantastic sounding, constantly rambling bass lines.
 
Dynamite job, Mark, this might be my new favorite of yours.  Have a good one, brother!
Bob
 

2 ecstatic listens of this British magic.
Ah never know what to expect (while glaring at the complex waveform).

Intro and 1:00 'confessions' are inspired IMHO.  So is 2:00 middle rhythm chuggas.

Ah the 3:20 comfort (ps 23).  Finale is spot on.

The kick freq is up around 120 Hz (with no sub-presence around 48-58 Hz) and the bass-guitar is not coming through on my K701s. 

(So I might appreciate much a bit more sonic room for the bass-guitar (which I finally hear at 3:55 for a bit)  (Also, the killer-vox deserves some more clarity presence (2.5 kHz) ... in the last minute or 2 especially ... probably due to my southern-Alabama accent)

These are minor crits as this is the greatest mix I've heard from you to date.  I love this exceedingly on many levels, the guitar textures, the killer vox, the drum symphony, the message, love, etc. etc.

Should you decide to increase both kick-subs and/or bass-guitar, I'd like to listen again to hear if that would make this soar a lot higher.
 
EDIT:
 
I just observed the comments above and disagree with most (perhaps they listened to a former mix) ... this mix is top-drawer-excellent and 100% awesome to my ears ... the best of the best; its just I, personally, love bass and kick enhancements due to my own hip-hop struggles.

mgh

cool tune, i like the driving relentless feel of it, with the snare pushing it

nice solo stuff, it's a bit buried..
i've gotta say, the song is better than the mix gives it.

it's got mix issues.

i cannot tell from a cursory listen, if it's panning, midrange clustering, frequency masking, eq choices, compression choices, or all of the above.

i think the kick could certainly used some low end, tho the top end of the kick is fine to me...

and the bass has some hint of super low, but no real low mid...

keep working on this one.
try some more extreme separation of the guitar parts, if possible...
and get the kick and bass really dialed in, with the vox on top, then bring everything else into it.
i would not put anything centered, except the kick, snare, and lead voice.

try hard panning, just as the experiment of it, strict LCR mixing, just see what it does....