Rock Song : Find My Way Home

I feel like the rhythm guitars are a bit prominent....and to be honest, the guitars in general. The drums are a bit swamped by the guitars. I like the idea of the song and see what you are going for but the instrumentation isn't quite there...sounds like it could use some great 50's style piano chords maybe supporting the rhythm. It has that late 50's kind of rhythm. So, let's say, tone down the guitars..they are doing too much heavy lifting. Open it up with piano perhaps on the left, a simple guitar accompaniment on the right, the licks off to a side. It's crying out for back up vocals too. 

I've listened to a lot of your work and agree with the others on this. You have (IMO) a really good set of songs that remind me of early Santana in places, and I loved their sound.
My input, I would do a remix taking time for placement of individual instruments etc, so that your vocal stands out on it's own but sorta 'in the mix', that might not sound so muddy on the final mixdown?
That said your work is really good, so looking forward to the upcoming album !
 
Steve 

Ax man, you have do what works for you. Suggestions are just that. Take them or leave them. Having said that, I'm going to make another one.  There are two reasons good record producers don't mix anything 100% right or left. Number one is that often music gets listened to on just one speaker even in a stereo system. Have you ever walked through a grocery store and noticed they were playing a certain song you knew over the store speakers and that a couple of instruments or background vocals were either gone altogether or extremely low in volume? I spent a good deal of my life as a meat cutter. I remember not having a regular job for more than two years and floating around from store to store filling in for guys who were on vacation etc. and noticing in several different stores that they were just playing one side of a stereo field. It's quite common in all kinds of stores. Store managers don't know anything about electronics and seldom hook music sources into the sound system properly. As long as you don't mix far right or far left, at least some of the content will always get through. The second reason is that extreme panning is unrealistic and also makes things rather thin sounding. When have you ever been to a concert and had musicians playing to the side of you? Even from the first row they're all in front of you. Panning anything more than 75 to 80% is impractical and odd sounding. Sounds thinner too, though I don't know why.
 
Just a thought. Keep on trucking partner.
 
Bill

"All of my 14 recent tunes on my bandcamp site are mixed this way and none of them sound either thin or unnatural."
 
It does to me. We experimented with that back in the 80's and quickly gave it up. To each his own.

Hey, good demo of your song...

Nice late 50s vibe... very authentic.  Although yeah, I could hear some block piano chords on the choruses.
 
Mix-wise not much to add to the above.   The guitars are taking precedence, perhaps both in level and frequency - the vocals and drums almost seem a bit "dull" in comparison.   Thing is, I like the way the guitars sound.  So maybe just reducing their levels a bit would help remove some of the masking.   Personally I would also center the solo a little to sit where the vocals were...
 

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