Secretariat-Borderline

[NosMos]

Spent a lot of time on the vocal to get it clear at every point.

Well there you did succeed I must admit. The problem is the vocals ended up sounding way too harsh in the process. I can't be sure if the problem is with the EQ settings, the compression or both but honestly it felt like somebody was taking sandpaper to my eardrums.

I do use compression sometimes when I know I should probably automate more.

Yes. Definitely.

Actually, aside from that rather nasty vocal problem this mix isn't bad, aside from that compression. You've balanced the tone of your electric guitars quite nicely and the drums are nice and punchy. Hoever, I feel the acoustic guitars are a little mid-heavy; they sound a little dull and boxy. Might want to try a little cut at 260 Hz and boost at 4800 Hz to sharpen them up a bit. Also, the mix overall is just a touch thin; you might try thickening up that bass just a touch. Not too much; don't want to add mud. Also, flyrecords is right about Gtr3; it needs to come up some.

Despite its flaws this mix is quite a bit better than the last one I reviewed; it just needs some tweaking, and IMHO that compression's gotta go...

Yeah listening now I can here Ive boosted the vocal way too much at about 2khz combined with to much comp.. I'm going to revisit this taking on board suggestions but i wont be able to post for more than a week because Ive run out of internet for the moment.