Thanks everyone for listening and providing some feedback.

Some very good observations, and good critical listening skills.

About the mix:
- Panning Drums
I made several duplicate tracks of the BIAB drums.
I treated each of those as if it was a separate element of the kit.
I applied aggressive EQ to each resulting in a simulation of Kick, Toms/Snare, High-hats and an overhead mic.
It may not be that apparent in the mix but, compared to the original drum track I believe It has more energy, which is what I was trying to achieve.
The last step was to do some very subtle panning of the High-hats and toms, the hick and overhead remain down the middle.
To my ear the drums got bigger doing this.

-Guitars
The BIAB bass is up the middle.
Driving rhythm is doubled and panned L/R but not all the way out.
There's a second rhythm guitar with intermittent hits playing against the main guitar. That guitar is EQd with more emphasis on the mid/highs and is panned slightly left.

-Lead Guitar
Lots of overdrive on the tone with focus on Low mids EQ.
That track is doubled and spread wide, L/R.

-Vocals
I used a brighter mic then I normally do.
I've got a lot of sibilance going on and I had a difficult time trying tame that.
Although it's all one track, the bridge that comes late in the song is much more aggressive with the mic pushed back further then on the verses. Its straight up the middle.


-Reverb/Delay
My guitars are always recorded with a tad of both.
Some additional delay was applied to the final tracks.
Some gentle reverb on the vocals with various levels of delay on different parts of the track.

Overall,
This ended up with a very heavily compressed sound which was not my original plan.

I'm going back to the drawing board.

Thanks again for your feedback.


Last edited by CaptainMoto; 01/22/20 06:32 AM.
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