Looking for some feedback on my mix. The song is very reminiscent of the 80's anthem kinda tune.  How's the mix ?
 
 
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlZBA1N91JU

The mix sounds very good.  Great vocals!  I like how you have the Kick eq'd and compressed.   And the power guitar sounds really good.  After the guitar solo, when the vocals come in again, the lead guitar moves from the center and then goes very low in volume, while doing some intense ripping in the background.  I'm not sure about that - it didn't feel right to me.  All in all a great production!

Jesus he can sing, man. Power and tone.

Sounds like the love child of Dio and Geddy Lee.

The vocal could have a slightly different feel sonically on the chorus. 
The snare could have some more hugeness, and add some heft and sparkle.

Great tune.

@guitartreck: I agree on the end of the guitar solo, but the guitarist kept playing and when I cut it earlier it didn't sound right  to me either. so I wasn't really sure what to do with it.  so I left it in, moved it to the side and reduced the level. sometimes i like it and others i don't. LOL!

@james: we did do gang vocals as backups but they didn't sound right, so I think we are gonna revisit it next weekend. but I agree.  what would make the snare huge and sparkle. I am new to the mixing thing. add some low and hi or reduce the mid freq in the snare? or reverb?

A nice warm compressor on the snare and maybe some gated reverb would give it that nice 80s throwback sound.

Liked the tune and as James said: the dude can sing. Nice job

Regards,

Powerful performance all the way around.  Do you perform live?

@Lynn,  Short answer - maybe

Long answer - The recording project Blakkmire, is with a couple of friends of mine that I was in a band with 22 years ago. We all played around town for many years. The guitar player still plays in a couple of groups one to earn extra money. I played in cover bands up til about a year ago.  But you know how it is, when we were young we were playing as much as possible, now...not so much.  We are working on this project to produce and "album".  we have many more songs. Once it is all completed we will play some live shows, but not frequently. Depends on the gig.

If I HAD to find a criticism, I might suggest bringing up the kick a tad, but that could just as easily be a deficiency on the part of my old ears. But, really, a superb mix. Great guitar tones, like the harmony guitar. Outstanding vocal! Bass and drums work well together. Terrific work. Mark

Awesome, dude. Sounds good to me but because I'm a guitar dork I'll comment on those.

The rhythm guits have a touch of the squishy squashy sound (not much but I noticed it) and they sound a little more "small room" than the vocals (which sound great BTW).

To try to get rid of the squishy squashies I'd try an extremely narrow notch filter to sweep until I found it and bring it down. Maybe not a full cut though.

To get rid of the "small room" sound I'd try cloning the guit tracks (if you haven't already if you have just use the clones) then nudging them ever so slightly to cause some delay OR send them to a delay bus. I just think they sound like they are in a different room than the singer and the drums. If you used a delay/reverb bus on the vocals try inserting sends that route to that and blending them in just a little.

The lead guit sounds great but it's not cutting quite as well as the rhythms so I'd try a boost sweep in the high-mid range to find the "bite" just to give it a bit more cut to match it with the rhythm guits a bit better and maybe a slight high shelf for some sparkle.

The bass seems a little buried but that might be my speakers as well. Still though if you can clone the DI track and give it a low shelf boost so it's flat but bottomy then blend it in it would really round out that bass part.

After all that I'd maybe try an IR reverb bus for everything to give it an overall live sound like you were watching them play it in a small club. This is screaming for a live sound. This might put some of the reverb/delay that's already in the track over the top though so just blend very carefully or adjust the delay/reverb that's already on the track.

As you know I am not a pro but you seem to have fun with this stuff and this is a great track so I figured I'd toss out some things to try.

Seriously man this sounds awesome. Just needs a bit of glue and space to my ears. Speaking of glue if you have the PC2A that might be a nice comp to throw in on the Master and maybe the Console Emu to push it into a nice warm vintage metal vibe.

Seriously this got me excited. I'll shut up now. Good job. ;-)