Beepster
Oh don't get me wrong. Sounds brilliant, Rain and the bass is fine as is. With stuff that sounds so together like this my ear tends to drift toward minutia. I even do it with full production releases (even of my favorite albums/mixes). Ask Baps. I probably drove him nuts on that last CHC thing we did. lulz
Too bad I don't actually know what heck I'm doing. I might actually get my own mixes sounding proper otherwise.
;-)
I have tons of crappy mixes on my HD.
Mixing traditional type of music (drums, bass, guitars, keys and such) is the hardest thing for me - no matter what Dave Pensado says. From rock and roll to metal, it's always a big challenge to get something to sound even just half-decent.
But sometimes, a thingie like this just puts itself together, and kind of works because it's just so primitive, in a early 60's sort of way. When I finished this one, I was actually thinking of the first couple of Beatles records. Nothing fancy, you just record the sound you want, balance them a bit and push everything through the buss, hoping for the best. There's a sort of randomness in what stands out at what time, and which instrument cast shadows at a certain time over the rest of them, which I sometimes like.
Otherwise, my own weird stuff is just so out there, written with such very specific sounds that it has to work. The mix is in the actual arrangement.