Thanks all for the feedback, its appreciated I am quite a novice at this really so any advice is appreciated. Taken on board the hard panning comments and will remember for future tracks.

Cheers

Steve

I think the hard panning wouldn't be so bad if you doubled the guitar part, one to the left and one, playing almost the same, to the right. Or you could use automation to start the guitar in centre and then pan to left or right once the other parts kick in...

Will try that technique out, sounds like it would really work well.

Cheers Andy

Top marks for the song and performance. Now you just need to work on the mix, starting with working on left/right balance. Mixing in headphones might help with that. I'd also try adding a little subtle ambiance to help glue the instruments together. Electric guitar sounds great to me, but the acoustic needs some EQ, perhaps automated to thin it out when it's not the featured instrument. 
 
Creative suggestions:
- try a long delay on the guitar lead
- layer a tambourine over the snare, bring it in for the 2nd half
- some kind of pad instrument would help tie everything together, perhaps an organ
- there are some nice melodic guitar phrases that are getting lost; you could apply some volume automation to shift focus to them
- the drums will be fine with some embellishments; some subtle hand percussion such as an egg shaker would be one place to start. I'd bring the hi-hat down a bit and look around for a deeper kick sample to overlay.
- lead vocal is excellent, but could stand some variation. Maybe automate the reverb send so it's drier either on the verse or on the chorus. Double-track the last verse. Bring in a delay on key phrases such as "distant memories are all I have".
 
You can probably tell I like this song. I'd have a blast mixing it.
 
 

I'm with Bitflipper on this one, I think it's a great song some things that he has mentioned would help, particularly try an egg shaker or tambourine in the chorus, just to add a little lift. Overall the production is excellent. A really nice delay on that lead guitar would be sweet. Maybe add a bit more verb to the side stick and bring it in more towards the center. Great Job Stephen.

Thanks guys once again for the advice, I am new to recording and I am learning as I go, this is probably the best mix I have done so far and the ideas and advice you have given will definitely be used on future projects, may even attempt a new mix of this when I have some time.

Bitflipper if you ever want to give it a go I could send you the tracks as wave files without any effects or anything (if that is how it should be done?), just give me a shout I would love to hear what someone with experience could do with it, no pressure though at all, its just you said you would have a ball mixing it so wanted to offer you the chance.

Thanks again for the ideas and guidance

Steve

Great vocal. To my ears it should be in the center. I hear it panned a little too right.
 
Acoustic guitars sound really nice. The right one might just be a tad bit to loud, IMO.
 
If it were me I'd give the drums just a bit more punch.
 
Excellent mix otherwise.

Thanks for reply all comments noted

 Very pristine sounding recordings. Great song and performances. I really enjoyed.

Hello, nice song, could not hear vocals. My problem was I couldn't decide if it was a folk or rock song. Maybe more folk and less rock would be better for me, I suppose if I could hear the words it would help. Keyboard support would help with fullness. Also could use some reverb or somthing gluing the sounds to a space of some sort. May a little too dry. Nice to on though.