Rescue Me - Advice welcome!

[Mixinthecloud]

This is an interesting take and approach. You seem to have established good sounds for each of your groups (drums, bass, guitars, vocals, mando). The lead guitar on the left seems to be highly disconnected from the rest of your groups. It sounds pretty good, but musically disconnected. There is a lot of emotion in this song and it leads the composition and with sounds starting out as well as you have presented them, you could enhance those emotions more with your mix. You've got the technical now let's hear your creative take on the emotional. The SONG.

I see you're a Studio One user. Is there a simple way to reverse channels on the verbs in the box? To help the channels feel less isolated? Or do you apply a mono verb or something?

Also - good advice about the emotional part of it. I've spent so long trying to get decent at the technical I missed that part. I just realized I never went back took a last pass at riding volumes on the tracks, which would have helped that, I think. What other things do you do to help out with the emotional aspects?

Not sure what you mean by 'reverse channels'. Can you explain?

The emotional part is entirely subjective and also may be context sensitive (age of the listener). What do you get when listening to the lyrics of the song? Can you translate that into your mix as the emotion swells and retreats according to the lyric and phrasing?