Advice on mix!!

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hey, this is just a song ive been making for some fun, still fairly new to producing and have had a go mixing it, any advice on the mix would be appreciated! havent bothered fading and cutting everything properly so my bad on some of the random clipping.

http://soundcloud.com/arstudio/raw-some-screams

 

[Goodfellas453]

guitars sound distant

 

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any ideas on what i could do to them to make it less distant?

 

[Goodfellas453]

it could be how your starting your mix, mix low to allow headroom. i start with my bass track solo it then slam it with a limiter to keep it at -18rms then put the kick on it then left guitars, then OH and toms then Right guitars then snare, if you keep this mindset you will have a more balanced mix imo, the bass and guitars should have a chemistry between them a huge amount of low end in the guitars is actually the bass track

 

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for a more detailed in depth version this helped me a lot

http://www.ultimatemetal.com/forum/8065710-post6.html