1st time poster looking for mixing feedback

[causeunknown]

Hello!

I'm a long time guitar player and have been working on learning recording/mixing/mastering the last couple years. Here is my latest work in progress and I would love to get any constructive feedback about it.

Djenty-ambient track

 

[dr.distortion]

Hi man! Nice music, but your mix sounds like it a quick demo, but not a professional mix.

First of all, your drums are boring. I don't like both their sound and their beats. Overheads are lifeless, kick sounds like it a default Sup. 2.0 kick sample, snare is too far. For now your drums are your the weakest place.

I don't like your rhytm guitars tone, it sounds like a POD Farm for me(but that's just my personal taste).
Your clean guitars are too loud.

Your bass guitar sits in the mix pretty good, but you can make it a bit lower.

 

[causeunknown]

your mix sounds like it a quick demo, but not a professional mix.

well i'm here to change that! hahaha

First of all, your drums are boring. I don't like both their sound and their beats. Overheads are lifeless, kick sounds like it a default Sup. 2.0 kick sample, snare is too far. For now your drums are your the weakest place.

i definitely don't disagree with you there. i'm still new to superior drummer and still just using the superior beats while I'm learning. I'm spending a lot more time working on the guitar and bass tones.

I don't like your rhythm guitars tone, it sounds like a POD Farm for me(but that's just my personal taste).

Could you elaborate on what you think I could do differently? I have 4 guitar tracks. my chain currently is compressor -> 808 -> legion -> rosen digital recto cab. 2 of them are hard left and right and go to a bus with an EQ for highpass & lowpass. The other 2 are lower in volume and also go to an EQ bus but highpassed and lowpassed at different frequencies.

Thanks for the feedback!

 

[dr.distortion]

Well, remember that drums is the most important part of your mix. With good drums bad guitars would sound like that's just a guitarist's personal taste while with awesome guitars bad drums would sound like it a bad mix. Pay much more attention to this part.

As for your guitars... Why did you use a compressor before 808? Also I would recommend you to work with a doubletrack instead of a quadtrack. Learn how to get good sound from a doubletrack at first.