My most recent original tune recorded in late March in my home studio. Enjoy!
 
https://soundcloud.com/mark-casta/this-mystery

This is as good as the rest of your fantastic recordings, and it's original.  You are putting us to shame.  I've already got you bookmarked!

Great bass (prominent yet not overbearing), great vocals (especially with the harmonies in the chorus), great driving, rhythmic feel. Really great guitar solo, too! although I'll bet some might say it has more reverb than they like, I thought the solo was a highlight of your song.
 
I also appreciated the breakdown section, you let it build back up perfectly. Everything throughout the song is exceptionally recorded - is it all going through the pres on your Octacapture, or are you employing other preamps?
 
To quibble a nit, a subjective nit, I thought your outtro vocals were a tiny bit thin compared to the rest, maybe doubling them or some microshifting or? But hardly worth worrying about, it might just be that I usually try to offer some helpful critique somehow, and in your effort, I can't really find much to really criticize.
 
cheers,
-Tom

Very well done Mark. Sounded almost live to me!

Thank you for the compliments gentlemen. For the first time ever, I wrote, recorded and mixed the entire song in just 3 days. Everything just seemed to lineup. 
 
You've got a real good ear there Emeraldsoul...the outro vocals are the only ones I didn't print to the final mix as a double track. I quadruple track almost every vocal element and end up using the best two as a double track. 
 
I used a stock preset from S-Gear on the solo so the reverb from that I left alone.
When I master tunes the reverb tails often get louder than I'd like (which is why I tend to mix a bit dryer these days.)
 
The only Octacapture preamp I used going in was the one on the vocals. I have an old Aphex Tubessence and a Dbx 166A behind my AKG414 mic. All the rest are effects inside the DAW like IK TRack compressors and EQs.
 
All the other instruments are software based inside the PC.
 
Thanks again for listening and the mix advice. It's always appreciated.

Good as it get for live home recording. Great sound, instrumentation and all the other stuff that goes with it. Nice work.
 
Peace and Blessings, John

Great job on a 3 day song.
 
The bass line is cool, the tone is not to my liking but that is just a personal taste thing.
 

Thanks Bapu!...as for the bass it's Scarbee bass neck p/u. I pretty much use it on every mix. What bass tone would you suggest? I midi almost everything so it wouldn't take much to swap out. I don't have the extensive library that you do but I've got some variety! Take care.
Mark

Sounds great! I'm a S-gear user myself...it's hard to beat. Great mix and performance. I suggest you leave it alone!

ClintMartin Thanks for the compliment!
 
I have Guitar Rig, Amplitube, Line6 AmpFarm 2 (and the Pod HD500 for live) as well as a few others.
S-Gear is my go to every time. On occasion I will use Guitar Rig and Amp Farm 2 for some specialty effect (they are both great BTW). But S-Gear just keeps adding new, highly usable features with every update.
 
Plus if you delve into the settings for each patch, there is a free lesson in how to create a myriad of classic guitar tones.
 
Easily the best software I own.