Song from my much delayed debut album for you to tear apart and give me good ideas

[midnightlaundry]

It has to be for you. Don't look for opinions because people are to proud.
Nobody is going to says it's great unless they can hitch their wagon to your success..
If you think it's good then it is. Do your own thing.

 

[nightlight]

I think the guitars are the main issue - besides being too low, they sound washed out. Is there a reverb on them? I think for this tune dry and up front is the way to go.

To me, it's obvious there are issues in certain passages that are buried. One thing I'm going to try is automation so that instruments don't get buried at different parts.

The way I saw it, the guitar gets buried in certain parts but then pops up in others. More often it's buried though, so I need to figure out why I'm mixing the drums too high after all these years. May break out the Avantone Mixcube I have to make sure that all the levels are alright.

I'm not too happy with the guitar tone as well. As mentioned, it's a modeller and I'm pretty sure I can get better results using an E906 and Shure SM57 for a more direct tone. Only problem with that is the noise level, so I may have problems doing that

As far as the guitar tone sounding washed out, I am wondering what I can do to prevent that. Away from keyboard, so not sure I put a reverb on it, but I can remove it or lower the effect if necessary

Josh Middleton has a great video on youtube about modern metal mixes.

I'll check this out, many thanks.