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This is my mix. Never mix this style. Decided to try. Please vote. thank you!

The transient of the first kick hit is missing. Always start bouncing at least couple of milliseconds before the first hit to avoid these.

I felt reverberating the kick drum and the bass was a really odd choice. Usually people might end up reverberating anything but either of those two. In general I feel there's too much of that small room reverb everywhere; it sounds like I'm listening this through some cheap "room simulator" software in a Windows Media Player. If I listen only the "mid" signal of mid-side (where there is no reverb), there the low end sounds great.

A good starting point in this kind of music is to keep the drums and bass totally dry (even the snare) and start off with reverberating the pads other "sustainy" parts. One usually wants the drums as tight and punchy sounding as possible in this kind of music.

I got it! Thanks for the detailed analysis of my mix!

I agree with Spede - aside from the vocals, the room appears to be rather narrow and cold - metally, I'd say.
Spede has said everything I could suggest you to do, the bass could do some more, however.

Good luck to you Akor, you're in the right track, especially when it's about volume-balance you know what to do in Drum & Bass!

Skelpolu Thank you!)

(01-03-2014, 10:05 AM)akor Wrote: [ -> ]This is my mix. Never mix this style. Decided to try. Please vote. thank you!

Personally, I love this mix just the way it is, with one exception. I feel the bass is a bit too heavy, possibly due to buildup from those reverbs mentioned earlier; I'd take those out, as suggested and back down the bass maybe 1 dB.

Other than that, a thoroughly enjoyable mix! I love what you did with the snare here, a nice sharp, punchy sound, and that fading echo at the end is awesome (though it cuts off a bit abruptly; I'd give it a little more time to tail off).