Opinions / critiques on a mix test wanted!

[Eben]

Been working on this for awhile now, thought I'd drop by on the sevenstring forum and see if I could get more professional opinions about my latest text mix. Not meant to be anything super fancy, just wanna know how the drums and guitar sound to different sets of ears. Needs bass, too.
Here it is: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/6451152/test2.mp3
DAW: Reaper 3.45 on OSX
Drums: Steven Slate 3.5 in Kontakt 4
Guitar: Pod farm 1.12 - signal chain: noise gate, tube screamer, cali diamond plate, comp, all loaded into mesa recabinet impulse through LAConvolver.

Thanks a lot, guys!

 

[B36arin]

You should humanize the drums, especially the cymbals, to make them sound more real. Just hit the humanize button or play around with the velocities It's not bad at all, get a bass guitar in there and maybe lower the drums/raise the guitars a notch and this will sound great!

 

[gnossdrawkcab]

Yeah this is really not bad at all. Definitely needs a bass guitar, but I like your overall drum sound with the mix. One thing though you might want to lower the mids on the rhythm guitars a little bit if you want to fit other stuff (leads/vocals) over it, but the tone is really good. Once you put a bass on this track it'll thump shit up

 

[Eben]

Thanks for the tips! I'm saving up to buy overhead mics for actual cymbals, for the time being I have to stick with one-sample crap. Not sure of any good overheads though.

 

[Werwolf999]

The guitars seemed a little too loud in this mix, otherwise everything else sounded pretty good.