In Need Of Some Mixing Advice For This Jazz Tune

I was only able to access the first mix, but it seems your problems are minor.  You should be able to manage the vocal with volume envelopes or a gate.  However, in a live jazz performance, a little bleed is acceptable and maybe even desirable in certain instances.  You have good material to work with.

there seemed to be a lot of fret noise on the bass... that might have been hidden better with a high roll off on the bass. 

it sounds pretty cool.

I re uploadeded the dry mix, if I can hear some advice about that one I'd be gald to work through what the plugins preset did right... @Lynn: I don't the bleed so much and I agree it can sound good in this style of music but I'm more concerned about the inconsistent loudness of the vocals...

Really good song, but its very low volume here. Had to turn it way up.

Hey guys, thanks a lot for the help and positive feedback(indeed the vocalist is good :-)). Remixed : click [I redid the sound for the bass, tweaked the guitar vs. vocals. dealt with the vox volume and also switched ezmix(yes I'm a mixing noob) with a regular master limiter on the master bus so at least if something is needed to be done on the master bus I know what's missing with your gracious help guys :)] @tmidi: I cut some 4500 out of the guitar, and indeed is sounds mellower and helps the vox come out. I didn't cut anything in the 1-4 because it made the guitar sound too close - and because it's an archtop with the way I EQed it it sounds close as it is. what frequency do you think I can emphasize with the guitar so not all it's EQ is cut or straight? @Guitarhacker: How would you cut the highs for the bass? high pass until what frequency? cause I tried some high pass but it didn't really cut it out... @foxwolfen are you referring to the dry mix or regular mix? kev1: somewhere between 4-6?

This is an easy one to mix as there are only three elements.  

Firstly, the guitar is too far back in the mix in mix three. I would suggest panning it off 25-35% to the left or the right and pan the vocalist the same amount in the opposite side.  Leave the bass down the middle....I guess that this would make it a variation of your second mix.   The bass sounded better on mix 2 as well.   In general, I didn't care for the 3rd mix at all.

I'd also suggest using either a common small room reverb for the vocal and guitar OR a dark plate reverb on the vox and a small room on the guitar. Leave the bass dry.  

The bass could also use some tweaking, but I'd have to have it "a la carte" to figure out what I'd do to improve it's tone.

Cheers,
J

http://soundcloud.com/zbbzspam Hey Guys, I changed WRGKMC's mix just a bit , and also applied similiar mixing to another song that was recorded that day (foggy day) - foggy day is faster and has better rhythmic feel, and I think it sound pretty good, better than stella. What do you think?