Daren- Thanks man, I assume the Limp bizkit your picking up there is the bass's tone and drum groove in the versus. I don't really see it, but I'll take it! Thanks man
Bit- Yeah the kick sound I had kind of rang there to start with and gave me the idea, I then added an instance of Session drummer with just those kick hits & detuned it to get that sub low BOOM. I am tweaking it now to give it some mids too, as I found that effect is inaudible on small systems like a laptop on this mix. Thanks for the tip on the vocals.
James- Thank you sir.
Herb- Yeah it has been trying at times dealing with the guys. I want to make it more sonic-ly correct?(if that makes sense) but I see their point too as most other music in this style is mixed for earbud listening.
Whack- yep on a laptop you don't hear as much of lows in his voice and the guitars get tangled in the upper end of his vocal. The vocal break is fun, and has just enough cheese factor to get the crowd involved at the live shows. haha by the time we get to that 3rd pre-chorus they are singing along with it.
Philz- Thanks bud, I am fixing that now. I find I often get "done" then later have to bump my vocal tracks by about a half a Db almost all the time because I have heard it so many times that I mix it a hair low.
Dan - Thank you for your time and the kind words!
Kev-I am working on it.
Dean-Thank man, The drums on this were recorded midi with my Roland V kit and sent through EZ drummer. Then I tweaked, eq'd and used some parallel compression techniques on them. They will sound better/bigger in my revised mix. P.S. I love that you couldn't tell and had to ask!