Cheers mate im listening to what you have to say and thank you .
Its a hard long lonely road and has been for 4 years since I started.
Its all a learning curve .we Shall give it another 4 then have another listen.
Yeah I do get bored of working on shit that no one is ever going to make sound good
but its all part of it…Thanks for the encouragement as o need it sometimes .
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Solid mix… only critique is that the HH stick bleed is a bit distracting
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My observations:
- The kick drum has a narrow high-frequency bell curve that can be brought under control with a frequency compressor.
- I recognize a larger problem with inappropriate drumming and/or timing issues than anything with your mix.
- Listening to your mix one final time - If I were working on this mix, and this is what I had 2-3 hours in? I would work on keeping the vocals above the guitar. More specifically, there are places where vocal phrase tails are fading down to a volume lower than the guitar. There are a half dozen things you can do to remedy this.
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Thanks for the comments
There is some cool stuff I’m liking here in terms of creativity. Sounds like some phaser on the bass? I like it! I might suggest limiting it to the moments when it is poking through the instrument sections. That’s just my opinion. If I’m nitpicking, I’d say there is a bit of buildup in the lows/low mids, but not severe. Snare seems just a tad hot to me. On my monitors I’m hearing it over the vocal. It IS a good sounding snare though 
Just coming down a hair would bring it all together in my opinion. I’m impressed with how well you dialed in the tone on the drums. Excellent job!
Not sure if you heard it, but there is some out-of-tune stuff happening on the guitar tracks. You can really hear it when the song first kicks off. Is there a tuning plugin at play here? It may be struggling to correct a chord rather than individual notes, as they’re intended to work. Hope that makes sense.
Pretty good separation of guitars etc, and yet it all sounds like it’s the same band. Overall, this is a solid mix man!
You’re well on your way. Most anything I hear would be pretty minor tweaks. I really like the creative touches you added without losing the feel of the song. Good job!!
Rushed the mix I think at the time but too late now.Cheers for the comments
I like how the focus is naturally in vox. Some more air to overall sound might open up the mix nicely.
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I think the kick is over-powering the mix. The acoustic guitars sound a bit stringy and need taming. Other than that, you did a good job.
Cheers for the listen BASSMASTER
Nice try !!! You like ac. guitars !!!
Thanks very much
Hey there takka360 
I liked some elements of your mix, but there are still some issues I’d like to point out that could drastically improve your mixes in the future. First of, and by the largest amount it’s EDITING. This alone could make your mix better 50% without even touching a single plugin. Timing, tempo issues are a must in this kind of material, where the drummer isn’t hitting in time (his beats are in the metronome tempo, but whats between the bars is played too loosely) If you have a good, solid drum performance, and a bass guitar that hits along with the kick, you have yourself a backbone for creating a great sounding mix. So go ahead and learn the Beat detective in pro Tools, it will save you hours and hours of manually slicing the tracks, among other great features that it provides. When you tighten up the drums, go in and do the same with bass guitar, then acoustic guitars. You will hear how the feel of your mix is drastically improving and you haven’t even started mixing.
Second, check the bleed, and eliminate as much of it possible as you can. It creates very nasty phase issues, which when heavily compressed creep up out of nowhere. For instance, that hi hat is clicking all the way throughout most of the song and it’s really distracting (and it’s just the bleed from the snare mic). Gate it out, or find a single snare hit (there’s one at the very beginning), use that one snare hit and replace every other, or just replace it altogether with some sampled one. Problem solved
When you prepare your mixes this way, you will find out how less processing with plugins you will need to do, in order to achieve a better sounding mix.
Hope that helps out, and just keep at it, don’t loose faith, it’s been a looong lonely road for all of us
Zsolt
Cheers for the feedback.Just logged back on today after a 3 month rest away from the pc
Welcome back!!
Ta mate