New Song out- " Working"

 Ive been working so much I haven't had a chance top post this one lol.

 https://soundcloud.com/starise/working

 Thanks for your take on this Lynn. I'll see what I can do here.

Sadly, I find myself in the consensus, Tim.  I think there's a pretty good tune hiding in there someplace.  Now you just have to let it get out.

I'm going to go against the crowd here and say I kind of enjoyed the mix....sounds very rough and ready, the style of the music lets you get away with it to my ears anyway. Reminded me a bit of Captain Beefheart. 

Yeah, I'm about the songwriting and I think your tapping into something here but it needs a little "airing out" and another mix.  You're on the right track.  Find the areas that sound like instruments are disappearing.  Some places it sounded like that to me.  Your guitar is probably too loud and lowering that a bit might help.  Someone said a bit chaotic.  +1  That's not all bad, though.

 I really appreciate all of your honest straightforward opinions here. That's the only way we can improve right?

 I spend about 5% of the time actually playing and the other 95% is usually engineering. I didn't want to come back until it was better. I uploaded three tracks until I finally started to get close.

 Ended up re-recording the harmonicas. I did a  LOT of  additional EQ work and changed the panning. I took a long time to find a verb that seemed right. Finally found one I think. Got a better verb feel I think by changing some send levels into the verb and adjusting the verb itself.

 A few times I thought I was close until I listened off the phones. It really helps to listen out of the headphones if possible. In my case my wife was sleeping and I couldn't get as much live room listening as I wanted.

 I did some chopping where the parts were fighting for attention and added some automation in other places....hopefully it is starting to shape up a little better now.

https://soundcloud.com/starise/working

 Thanks James, I'll see whats up with the bass. Who knows, maybe I accidentally deleted the bass track. I usually bump my bass up in the 150/250 range depending on the bass and the track so it will still be heard on lesser systems like lappy speakers....I probably did something stupid again..thanks.

I wasn't hearing the bass on the 1st listen, let me know when it's fixed and I'll check it out again.

Neat tune. Could use some work getting the levels even. The harp is a bit too loud at times and the drums seem to get swallowed up in the mix. I like the shear emotion which cuts through in the vocals and guitars. Perhaps cut back a bit on the distortion on the lead guitar and rebalance the bass. Lots to work with here, well worth the effort of cleaning up. 

 Wookie- Thanks for the listen. I made some more tweaks on the bass hopefully on other systems it will be a little more apparent and add some bottom to things. I always worry about making everything too muddy and bassy and go the other extreme.

 The Band19- The bass should be better now. Thanks for listening.

 John- Thanks for your comments. Yes I was going for a bluesy hard kind of feel on this. I noticed some really slight timing issues on the guitar parts. I haven't yet bothered to time stretch anything yet as I wasn't sure they were serious enough to go that extent. That fact that I think you heard them makes me reconsider this approach.

 Tap- Thanks man, I will look at the distortion here and see if I can make it a bit less.

AT- I see what you mean. Especially at the beginning. Kind of busy.Appreciate the listen.

Nice tunage!

It sounds like a bunch of people in a big room just jammin and having fun.

Raw!