Thanks, chuck. I'd love to hear your stuff. You can send it to me directly if you want. Also if you want to collaborate on something I'd totally lay some tracks down for you. I'm gonna be pretty busy for the next month or so with boring life stuff but after that I should be in full production mode.

As far as the drums... as I blearily woke up this morning (stupid neighbors stomping around upstairs... ugh) I realized that I probably should have gone right back into my drum mix before mixing down for mastering. I set the drum's EQs and compression first then drew out the rest of the mix to that which likely buried the drums a bit. The levels on the drums were all maxed out though so I'll have to turn everything else down I think to get any more meat out of them. Maybe I'll mess around with that today if I can get my brain in gear.

Anyone know of some good online tuts or charts about EQing drums? I was just kind of winging it by ear and not really using any scientific production concepts. Pretty much how I approached this entire mix really. 

Oh and, chuck... those are BFD Eco drums using the free Rock Legends kit that came with it during the special this summer.

Cheers and thanks again.

Very, very nice!

I *so* wanted to bang my head on the desk, then I remembered it's made of glass! 

Heh heh. Broken glass makes the headbanging even more hardcore. \m/

Thanks for checking it out.

This song, as I said, is likely going to get redone and tossed on album eventually. I'm planning on writing the whole album instrumentally like I've done with this at first then write some vocals afterward and rerecord it all again. It's tricky recording brand new material as opposed to playing songs with a band for a couple years then going into the studio so I can consider the first versions as my preproduction. Added bonus will be I can use the first versions as my beds if I get everything close to how I want the first time.

Anyway... just rambling. Kind of bored right now because I've expended my physical limits for the day sorting through my junk and I'm feeling a little burnt out on that tune so I don't think I'm gonna mess with it tonight. Might play some video games or maybe start reading through more of the behemoth X2 manual.

If anyone's got any more insights on the mix I'm still interested. I think this is actually the first time I've achieved successful separation of all the instruments thanks to the advice of the forum.

 Great arrangement and playing Beepster! Add a little bump to the bass and drums and I think you're there.

 Bless your black heart! Guitars ear candy! Drums not so much, not bad, great in context just needs an equally matching attack as the rest. Salute,  you wield your dissonance with great elegance

Man, I'm really happy you guys like the tune itself despite some of the production shortcomings. It's been quite a while since I've actually written anything. The last song I posted was kind of slapped together just so I had something to work with. I didn't exactly agonize TOO much over this one either but I did make an attempt to put some heart into it so it's great to hear that I can still create something that people enjoy. Gives me hope and purpose. I very much need that these days. Thanks guys.

Not my bag at all but I enjoyed it anyway - very good skills here.

everything  +++1

Enjoyed the guitars very much. As mentioned earlier need more bass and drums.

cool arrangement... especially liked the beat change-ups... great work so far...