Crossfade - Feedback on new instrumental please

Just listening'

There are wiser peeps here than me that will probably offer good advice.

From my perspective the mix sounds crowded as there appears little space for the instruments to breath.  I would try some instrument placement techniques and perhaps some selective EQ to open up the different sound stages of the individual parts, I would also point you at my signature.

Thanks for sharing I think theres probably something very good in there just needs some gentle tweaking to bring it out.

Very well done. catchy all the way through. Guitar is 60s meat 80s. Would have liked to hear vocals, but thats me.
 
 
cheers, Terry
 
 
http://www.reverbnation.com/play_now/song_5952498

Thanks Guys. I really appreciate your help and comments.

I did a remix today, again. I hope this is better!
 
There are no out of key notes on the song. I am playing rock, jazz, and fusion type lead runs. A lot of people don't like jazz type licks because they don't like the "tension building" passing notes. They think it's out of key, but if they listened to a lot of jazz, it would know that it's totally normal. Any notes that I hit were totally planned, if not, I would delete them out of the song.

Thanks a lot,

I used to listen to a lot of Frank Zappa and Steve Vai. Now that's some strange stuff sometimes.

Thanks!

I have a big problem with kick drum and bass guitar most of the time. I use a spectrum analyzer now. I should trust it more I guess. I put in 5 or 10 great sounding CD's, watch the analyzer, and try to match the bottom, mids, and top end to it. My studio monitors and computer speaker monitors sound totally different. I hope that I can get better at separating kick and bass.

Thanks,

I worked on the drums a little more today. I think that they are better now??? , or I hope!

This is a nice basis for a larger production. The addition of some harmony guits here and there and a mellower, spacey middle section would be real cool.

Need some mid tones!

Otherwise this sounded great.

Thanks a lot guys!

Here's a new version with different drums. Which one do you like better?
 
I worked on the guitar volume a little a few minites ago. I think it might be finished now. I am getting really tired of hearing it anymore, for now. It is not a loud song.
 
I settled for an average RMS Power of -14.89. I know that it's low compared to today's Rock, but when I tried to make it hotter, the loudness of the snare pops and cymbal taps started being the same volume, instead of different levels, and the guitar started losing some dynamics.
 
 
http://www.soundclick.com/player/single_player.cfm?songid=10085326&q=hi
 
or larger, better sounding file below:
 
http://www.atlanticplumbing.net/crossfade.mp3