This is a nice sounding pop-like number.
Your vocals sound great.
Nice one!

Sounds like a cool tune to me! Nice work especially three days.
I've done that a few times myself!
Markmusicman

lovely style. Nice ...

What a fine piece of work Mark. You have a good vocal and guitar playing skills, for sure. All well tracked and mixed. Care to share what you did to "master?"
 
Regarding your amp sims... I have GR 5 and TH2. I use TH2 for the subtler effects and GR 5 for the not so subtle, but that's probably because I don't tweak with the presets much.
 
I've just had a look at S-Gear and I put off a little by their licensing options. Have you gone for the USB key or machine locked option? Just curious 

Very cool track, and an outstanding solo.  Vocals were excellent too, but sounded a bit thin in the mix to me... could be a matter of personal taste though as that may have been the sound you wanted.  Overall a terrific job... especially for 3 days!

Totally pro. Great job!

very cool tune....love the vox.....not a really a big fan of the into but of course that's all subjective.
 
cool kit work during the lead....
 
enjoyed the hell out of it!!

Sorry I've been away from the PC for a few days...thanks again for your compliments and suggestions! They are much appreciated!
 
synkotron - I'm not sure what the difference is between GR4 and 5. But before S-Gear, GR4 was my main amp sim. I've never tried TH2. Guess I'll have to check it out.
 
My S-Gear is a few years old and I just had to register it online. I update it now and then because they always add a new amp or effect. I guess the licensing has some new options. I don't iLok so I'm glad I didn't have to deal with that.
 
As for the mastering, I bounced the final mix to stereo and opened a new Sonar Project. I used T-Racks S3...I loaded it with a Classic Compressor (set to slow compress) then the EQ1 (using the Vintage Mix Preset) then the Classic Compressor again (Set to Fast Compress) and then the Classic Clipper to keep it from distorting.
 
I usually have to go back and turn certain things up or down in the mix after mastering, so I probably get it after 3 or 4 tries.
 
Occasionally I'll use a little reverb on the mix if it's too dry or brittle...and I might use different EQ's that come with Sonar if I can't get what I want with the T-Racks....While I try to stick with a basic setup for mixing and mastering, it never fails, every mix is different even if all the parts are similar.
 
Hope this helps!

MGC59
Hope this helps!

Indeed it does Mark, thanks 
 
I'm with you on the iLok... I'm laptop based and I just don't have the spare ports anyway, besides having a dongle sticking out of the side.
 

MGC59
As for the mastering, I bounced the final mix to stereo and opened a new Sonar Project.

I've read that a few peeps here do that, so I might check this method out for myself. I've got SF10 but I'm mainly using that to trim to length and apply some final compression perhaps. Almost seems a shame to say that, but there you go haha.
 
cheers
 
andy

I had, used and loved Sound Forge for years until the version I had wouldn't work with the next OS. Then last year I saw it for sale (alerted by cclary and others in this forum) by Sony as part of a Suite...Vegas 12, CD Architect, DVD Architect and a few others for some insanely cheap price...the sad thing is I got so used to Mastering in Sonar that I forgot how to use SF! I use CD Architect all the time. I need to get back into SF plus they added some new plugs I would like to try out.
 
Synkotron my laptop has so few USB ports I couldn't spare one for iLok! I have used up all the USB on my main studio PC.