I just wanted to post this and get an ear check!  Comments, complaints, suggestions welcome.  But on the mix only.  composition is set.

Thanks for your time!!

LAST UNMASTERED MIX (MP3) 3/31/2013 @ 4:21PM  
http://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=12245425

FINISHED MIX: 4/4/14 (WAV)
https://soundcloud.com/al...lice-sweet-alice-m-i-a

Great song! My ear always goes to the singer--can't get enough of a good singer, and this is a good one.

My ear hears a lot of mid-high freq energy in the mix, which is shared between the rhythm guitar and the singer, especially at about 1:00+.

Have you tried sidechaining a compressor to duck the guitar, just slightly, when the singer's voice is present?

To get even trickier, you could try coupling a slight freq cut in the guitar in the singer's band--about 1200-2400 Hz--to whenever the singer's voice is present.

These are only slight differences I'm talking about, just enough to clear a little freq space around a singer's voice that I really want to hear.

good song, though it appears to be missing some of the beef in the mix, the low end.
its a little thin, im guessing maybe 100k-500k
this is broad but id like to hear some lower end in it.

the mix itself is good, all instruments are very well balanced,nice job.

I agree, this is a very nicely put together song and the singing just brings it full circle. Nice instrumentals and a great voice really make this stand out front. I really enjoyed this and it had my attention all the way through.  Peace be with you. Blessings, John

Sounds very good. Really liked the bass and guitar together. Enjoyed it a lot.

Good stuff!!  I may need to adjust my sub slightly, it sounds pretty good here in the low end.  That's one of those things that in the past I killed most of my mixes with, low frequency MUD. ;)  I run my bass in parallel - a DI and a mic'd cabinet which has killer beef.  It may be just a matter of pulling that up just a tad.

I know what you mean about the guitar and voice fighting.  I'll notch out that frequency (and/or do a sweep) and see if that helps.  

THANK YOU ALL!!!  I'll post another mix in a bit.  Cheers!!

Liked the music and the vocals are great. At times the vocals and the music reminded me of Natalie Merchant (10,000 maniacs)

Like others have said, the mix is good, but lacks some lower frequencie oomph.

Enjoyed this.

Nice work indeed.

OK, back from dropping the "chitlins" off at school.  Lemme dive in....

I, too, love the song and the vocalist.  I agree that there's some low end missing in this mix, and near the end of the song, the vocal is competing with other instruments for attention.  This could be fix with automation envelops.  All in all, good job.

Thank you!

What I did for the low end was (in addition to tweaking my sub slightly), was pull my bass cabinet up in the mix, and I also brought up the kick a little bit and adjusted the tom mix.

I notched the guitar in the ~3000K range after a sweep which found that was the most competitive area (they're bussed so that was easy), and I pulled the female vocals slightly up in the choruses and the end of the song.

Give it a shot, and thanks again!!    So happy you all like the song.  It will be the first single from our new album.
NEW MIX 3/29/2013 @ 10:11AM http://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=12245425