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Phil:  Thanks for taking a few minutes to listen and for the feedback and nice comments.
 
Mark(mgh):  Thanks for the relisten Mark and for your specific thoughts about the bass and drums.  I'm pretty sure Tom recorded direct on this one so I can likely get a dry bass track from him that I could effect and mix in.  I assume you were thinking of a slightly fuzzed or distorted tone?  Thanks for the info on the compression for the drums.  I was going to ask what specifically you might do to the drums to make them more punchy.  Would you make that compression setting consistent across the whole kit or just to specific instruments?  I keep all the full song mixes separately so I can go back and create a new mix with your two comments in mind to see what it sounds like that way and still have this mix if I we prefer it.  It will be a good learning experience for me and we might like it better.  I have already found that in my new room, I need to mix the bass pretty aggressively because it was thumping pretty good here on my first posted mix and everyone wanted more!  LOL  Good stuff to know for sure.

I use NY compression on the drums.(send mix compressed massively and mixed in very slightly to main drum mix) you can use a transient designer to achieve some of this. Cymbals kick I treat separately. For bass mix in another sound or use something like waves maxxbass or mix in a sub synth bass

Thanks a bunch guys!  These are all very helpful and specific things, just what I need.  I am heading out of town tomorrow for a week.  When I get back, I'll remix this tune with these comments in mind to see what I can do and more importantly, what I can learn from it.  Thanks for taking your time to relisten and repost, much appreciated!!

Just for kicks I listened to this on my iPhone speakers. I can't comment on the bass but man oh man everything else just leaps off my phone.

Guitar sounds so nice and crunchy. That two handed fretting sounds on the lead are super tasteful.
The snare and kick in good balance.
And the happy upbeat vocals...what a blast. ;)

Nice!   Good straightforward rock feel and mix, clean and present, yet the guitars are crunchy and the drums are punchy.    Loved that little breakdown section, very cool.   I also think the bass could use a little oomph but that's a minor point.  
 

daryl1968
 
I think the vocal could use some of the bottom end rolled off of it which would enable you to bring the bass up in the mix. 
However I may be wrong,  in which case please beat me vigorously with a wet fish to atone for my mistake.

^^^^ This. I was going to say the same exact thing, just not the fish part.
 
I'd also volume automate the distorted guitar arpeggios down just a hair when the vocals need to be heard a little more distinctly. Or somehow have less hair on the distortion when the singer is singing.
 
I also LOVE the swing time drums toward the end! I don't know what song they belong to, it may not be this one . . . :) but if I'm wrong about that it's wet fish time.
 
cool tunage here.
 
-Tom

Always a pleasure to listen to your stuff guys. Thanks for sharing. 
 
 

 
Cool guitar Tony. Vocals mixed well and nice flow. Bass is mild but effective enough. Felt good listening to it. Thanks.

I liked it before now you have polished it, nice

Daryl:  Thanks for the listen and for the crtitique/suggestion.  It would have never occurred to me to cut some bass out of the vocal to let the bass guitar come through.  Sounds perfectly logical to me.  I will give that a try to see how it sounds.  I'll forgo my wet fish purchase for now
 
John:  Thanks for the relisten and the idea of very targeted EQ use, I'll keep that tidbit in mind as well.  Thanks for the re-re-listen.  Much appreciated.  I am going to give this thing another round of mixing soon to see if I can put some oomph into the bass without bringing the volume up.  I'm pretty happy with the mix now so this is mainly a learning experience from this point out.
 
Mark(mgh):  Thanks for the detailed suggestions, I am likely going to revisit this thread in the future when I mix a tune.
 
James:  Thanks for checking out the new tune.  I appreciate the kind comments and the insight on the balance between kick and snare.  Thanks for the two handed comment.  I'm not big on that stuff but something made me give it a whirl on this tune and I thought the fit was right.  I wrote the basic lyrics and Tom changed a few things.  I tend to write lyrics that are a bit insular and Tom's lyrics are always insinuating someone getting shot or worse!  LOL  Definitely upbeat in comparison.
 
Stevec:  Thanks for the listen and the kind comments.  Glad the center section appealed to you too.  Thanks for chiming in on the bass.  I definitely think the solution is not simply in pushing the volume up so I'll have to get into this deeper for sure!
 
Tom:  Thanks for giving this a listen and for your kind comments and crits.  I like the idea of using an envelope on the guitars during the main vox parts.  The drums were done for this tune.  Preston considers himself more of a funk/reggae drummer than straight up rock so he often brings something very unique to the tune with his drums.  His outro on this tune really caught our ears too.
 
Texmes:  Thanks for listening and the kind comment.
 
Ramesh:  Thanks for listening and for the kind comments and the specific nod to the bass.  It sounds loud enough on my mixing setup too.