[dr_daw]

Daveb,

That mix is coming along with much more prescence than the first mix in the drums. I still feel like the balls are missing. You definitely have some frequencies battling each other and I still feel like there's a little compression on the output buss. I think the struggle with the drums may be using Superior drummer, I've used samples in the past with heavy music, but always found the heaviest sounds came from a real live kit. This track should rip peoples faces off. The same can be said about the guitars, the riffs are there, but into the first chorus the rythm guitar gets masked; a real amp with a mic could go a long way.

How many guitar tracks do you have going? Are they using different patches? Did you double them or just copy/paste? Personally, for guitar sounds(if you haven't done this already) record two of the exact same takes, pan one to the Left a bit and equally pan the other to the Right. You'll get a bigger, heavier sound. What was the Bass recorded with? just DI?

Either way, if this is just a demo, it's good! Get it professionally mastered and move onto the next track...don't get too caught up, the more recordings and mixes you do, the better they'll get.

Makes me miss working on heavy music, for now, back to brushes and accoustic guitars :P