ohgrant
 Really cool tune. Mix sounds great on cans, have to agree a tad more energy to the snare would benefit. Maybe a touch of transient designer love in the drum buss. Great tone and style on guitar. Great sounding vox

Many thanks for listening and critiquing, ohgrant. I've never used a transient designer, is the transient shaper plug-in what you're talking about? Gonna have to read up on that.

Starise
I would be proud of this accomplishment kevinwal...really well put together and played. I love those vocals and that guitar sits in there sounding perfectly suited for where it is . NICE!!

Thanks for the kind words, I really appreciate you taking the time to listen and to give your feedback!

ohgrant

kevinwal

ohgrant
 Really cool tune. Mix sounds great on cans, have to agree a tad more energy to the snare would benefit. Maybe a touch of transient designer love in the drum buss. Great tone and style on guitar. Great sounding vox

Many thanks for listening and critiquing, ohgrant. I've never used a transient designer, is the transient shaper plug-in what you're talking about? Gonna have to read up on that.

Yea Kev, that's what I mean. That's assuming you are working with a stereo mix in the channel, if you have control over individual kit pieces, raising the snare volume a tad might just do the trick.
  Just a hobbyist learning myself so to be taken with a grain of salt. A nice sounding kit that just needs a little more snare energy. If you've never tried a transient tool, you should. It can increase or soften the transients.
 Mix is really cool otherwise IMO, I've only listened with headphones a few times. A really great headphone mix.  

Thanks, I mix on headphones so yeah, it's optimized for that, lol. The family would really shoot me in the back if I mixed through monitors. I do check the mix on the monitors when I think I've got it right. I'm a hobbyist too and in my experience (since Sonar 7, really) recording and getting the mix right is harder than learning to play bass or guitar ever was, lol. 
 
I'll monkey around with the transient shaper, but I do have control over the volume and eq of individual kit pieces so I'll try all of the above when I get home.

Great laid back groove, cool songwriting.  My nits:

• maybe give the kick some more bottom end
• snare is a bit flabby, not enough punch
• I could probably do with a little less verb on the vox

Really excellent production overall.  I count this as one of the better ones on this board. :)

I'm listening on terrible little work computer speakers, so I'll withhold judgment on the mix (although, it sounds pretty dang good anyway!) and give it a proper listen at home this weekend.  But, the singing and songwriting are both stellar - very catchy song that is well performed.  You should definitely be proud of this one!

cryophonik
I'm listening on terrible little work computer speakers, so I'll withhold judgment on the mix (although, it sounds pretty dang good anyway!) and give it a proper listen at home this weekend.  But, the singing and songwriting are both stellar - very catchy song that is well performed.  You should definitely be proud of this one!

Thanks for giving it a listen, I appreciate your taking the time to give your thoughts! I know what you mean about the speakers, my wife and I are on vacation and I've got a crappy little laptop and there's all these great tunes in this forum to give a listen to. I have a list of tunes to listen to when I get home.

I've taken in all the commentary and have produced a new mix. Interestingly, to my ears it doesn't really sound better, just a bit different. I'd be interested in hearing some comments on this. I've also noticed quite a bit of difference between the wav, the mp3 and the tune after soundcloud is done hammering away at it. I've also updated my original post to reflect this updated version.
 
Anyway, here are the changes I incorporated:
 
1. Adjusted the mic'ing of the snare (I'm using Addictive Drums 2) to more heavily favor the top over the bottom mic. I've also goosed the snare volume a tad, along with the kick.
2. I've modified the bass to increase the high pass filter starting frequency to 60hz and increased the slope some. I've also added some upper mids to capture a bit more of my p-bass's character. I think I could do more here but I'll stop where I'm at.
3. I've reduced the reverb on the vocal tracks quite a bit.
4. I've reduced the volume of the synth to allow it to fill out things without getting to onerous.
5. I've adjusted the overall eq of the track to add a bit more top end. Since I don't have very good high frequency hearing it's tough for me to judge whether or not I've gone too far here so comment is very welcome.
 
The new version can be found here:
https://soundcloud.com/kevin-ibsen/shot-in-the-back-v2

Thanks!

Wow, thanks, Bob, that's high praise indeed coming from you! I love ARS too, best band I ever heard live. I appreciate you giving a listen, and I'll see about that link.

Stylish lead...Good lyrical story line...Nice song.
 
Cheers,
Kane

ohgrant
There ya go, a gorgeous snare now. Vocals seem up front, mix sounds golden to me now. 

I get what you mean now with the snare, it does add a heck of a lot. Thanks for the feedback, I appreciate it!

Thanks for listening, bapu. I'd laugh but I think that would only encourage you.

I think this sounds great now, I listen some of the old version and then the new one. The mix is really fitting together great! Btw your voice reminds me of Peter Gabriel.  +++

Leizer
I think this sounds great now, I listen some of the old version and then the new one. The mix is really fitting together great! Btw your voice reminds me of Peter Gabriel.  +++

Thanks for listening, Leizer, I appreciate you taking the time to do it. Peter Gabriel? I'll take that.