Thanx for the suggestions and kind wishes...I'm going to remix this tonite I hope...what I notice when I hear it on my home stereo is the strings that are very sublet were louder than I wanted, I'm still not satisfied with the guitar tone. The performance (good or bad) is really what I was going for, but Sabbath was far from my mind...that's not a bad thing and I do hear it.
The drums were different for me in this, it is jamstix but I really learned jamstix with this and spent hours getting the drum sound I wanted. I was trying to to lay off a lot of cymbals on purpose and just want those mellow fills on the toms. The drums were done a head of the beat and any other programming was done loosely intentionally (no quantizing), I wanted a more human feel for this song...I should add this song is one that I have been playing for a long time and finally decided to settle on a guitar part and call the guitar performance done...I did that a couple of months ago...I spent a lot of time after reworking the rest of the parts to compliment the guitar as best I could. I am going to try and bring the cymbals up some and see what happens.
I also want to thicken the guitar tone some, a little more eq (maybe hass effect) and maybe some delay or reverb. In this first mix the only fx for the guitar are the recorded returns from my hardware Yamaha MX-400 that I use to monitor through effects with when recording...I do not record the fx on the same track as the mics...so I did mix those returns in but I'm going to try it with some of samps fx. I'm also going to pull the ribbon mic out of the mix and add in a take with the SM 57 in a diferent position.
first mix always sux for me
