wow man that sounds great, alot more body to it...what program did you use and what did you do exactly? what do you suggest i do about the compressor on the master track just tone it down a bit?
If you used the compressor on the master track as mixing tool, i.e. kept it there during mixing and consider it part of how you want your mix to sound, then yes, keep it on but still try a little lighter settings. The audio really shouldn't "duck" or "stutter" audibly at any time. Check this at the most intense parts - e.g. currently in your mix, drums, clean guits, and vox are good together, but when the distorted guitars come in it overloads (and very much so at the solo outburst). Could also first try higher HPF on guit and bass tracks. If it's difficult to hear, make a test by temporarily adding a finalizer/maximizer thingy at light/moderate settings to increase overall loudness INCLUDING possible unwanted artifacts produced by the master bus compressor (that are however not caused by the temporary test thingy itself, if I make sense), or listen carefully to your mix at low volume.
If you just threw on the master comp as a last step and went sort of "well, now it sounds sweeter", then render one mix with it and one without. Send off both files and explain why.
I used EQ (high pass 40Hz@Q0.8, boost on [500-1200]Hz and above 7kHz, but also attenuated some 880Hz), multiband compression (boosted lows but compressed first, limiter comp settings above 10kHz, and "loudness maximization"). Also tampered with the stereo image, pulled the s-differences of the lows and low mids more in. Exact settings would make a long list but it's all plugins, EQ (HPF 40Hz) -> PSP Saturator -> PSP Vintage Warmer -> EQ (HPF 40Hz, LPF 18kHz) -> Ozone -> Ozone (yes, another instance).
Also, i dont know if you know that the spot right where the solo kicks in there is supposed to be a bass boost right when the solo kicks in but its getting lost in the mix any suggestions on how to bring it out more? thanks for responding...
I do understand there's something going on there, like a sub-drop, although I'm not sure I understand what you really mean by a "bass boost". In any case it's competing with the guitars, bass, and kick drum so try an automated EQ envelope to selectively pull out lows from those competitors just for that couple of seconds until you can clearly hear your desired effect.
