Mix advice please.

[FPSR]

I have been working on this song on and off for about a year now ( bad habbit i know ) but I would really like some fresh ears to see if I'm heading in the right direction with my mixing.

Here is my before and after mixes.

Old with no bass:
https://soundcloud.com/fpsr/msp-tvwtrom

New mix:
https://soundcloud.com/fpsr/tvwtrom-demo-new-mix

 

[Wishx]

First off, if you are pararell compressing do not send the overheads. (they sound squashed).
Is this midi trigered guitar samples ? if so use a bit of midi modifiers to humanize them, thats whats obviously stickin' out 2 me

 

[FPSR]

Thanks for your reply.

Yeah I do have a parallel compression buss set up but only for kick, snare and toms. On my overheads track I have Satson Channel, Compressor and Eq and they are sent to a reverb buss that has a small hall reverb and some Eq. What could it be that would be making them sound squashed? Could it my compression?
No midi trigger guitar samples but I did record the guitars in sections cause I was struggling with playing the whole song all in one and getting it tight. Would I be right in saying that my editing of the guitars are off?

 

[Wishx]

Usualy overheads benefit from little compression, try dial your compression down to 2 dBs (try some opto models there aswell)

 

[FPSR]

I played around with my track a bit more, I ended up taking the compression of the oh's all together. Hopefully this is sounding better.
https://soundcloud.com/fpsr/tvwtrom-10-5-13-v1-4

 

[FPSR]

Hopefully this will be my last attempt with this mix....touched up some of my guitar edits and mix.

https://soundcloud.com/fpsr/tvwtrom-04-06-13v-1