Hi,
Many thanks for the continued comments - and I'm really impressed at how constructive they all are, so thats appreciated. Some more info based on some of the comments:
- the drums were produced using ezd2 - i find it excellent for sound quality of the samples, and not too bad for editing once you get the hang of it
- I tend not to add too many effects. There are none on the master bus (other than some standard compression), and I've added nothing to the vocals or guitars once recorded. So for this song all I really used after recording was EQ and panning to create space fro everything, and then master bus compression
- I mixed/mastered this myself, on my DAW (PC running an oldish, but stable, version of cubase SX). I do know some people that can offer some very good mixing/mastering, but I'm always keen to try and learn each time myself - and the feedback here has helped with that !
Will definitely post more here !
Many thanks
John