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dude, the word of the day is 'muddy'. overall, it has the feel of a twice-dubbed cassette tape. details seem lost. in some ways, the separation is better on the older version. (don't mean to sound discouraging! keep recording and experimenting!)
Thanks for listening! I haven't heard yours yet since I'm at work and the speakers here are crappy.
No worries about discouraging. It's better to hear the critiques since the only other people who've listened prior to this are friends who are not "critical listeners" for the most part. They tend to give reviews like, "Wow!! You recorded something on the computer! Sweet!"
I hear what you are saying about muddy. Several others have now mentioned it to me on the Reaper forum. I've been playing with it a bit more to try and clear it up, but haven't gotten close to posting an update yet.
I split my rhythm guitar into two tracks and panned it better to make more space in the center for the vocs and I've been tweaking the EQ on the drums, rhythm guitar and vocs to try and clear them up some more.
Unfortunately, my budget has me stuck with standard computer speakers with a subwoofer at home so a lot of my tweaking is coming down to guess work. Eventually I'll get something that isn't so cluttered sounding though.