Wow, thanks a lot for your comments, lots of things to think about!.
First of all, there IS a bass AND a shaker! That goes to show my lack of mix perspective!
I´ve been rolling down the low end on the bass more and more on each mixing pass, partly due to the fact that I don´t feel too confident about its arrangement, and partly because I´m searching for that lovely, mid-rangey ´70s bass sound (think Dylan´s "Buckets of rain", or John Martyn´s "Solid air"). I always seem to get too much low end and not enough brightness from my instrument, not only on this song but every time.
The shaker... I always feel it´s too loud when I mix it, specially if it´s me playing it. Then I listen to some J.J.Cale and wonder: how come those shakers sound so loud and so good?
Acc guitar is two different tracks, one busier than the other, and the playing is sloppy. Pan is 16% to each side. Lots of high end is taken down, my room is aaawful for acoustics. I´ll try different mics and rooms for that.
I think I feel this song to be mostly mono, aside from reverb. I´m using a plate convolution impulse. I´ll decrease the main guitar send to that, the preset that I´m using on the amp has already quite some ´verb. It´s a tremolo plug-in and a cheap digital amp, I´m recording the stereo headphone output.
Thank you very much, it feels great to read your comments. Back to work!
