I just listened over very shitty headphones, but it sounds quite good imho. (I do not have internet on my recording pc, which is connected to my monitors.)
I like the voice, too. Sorry for not being very helpful.

Home sounds good,
The lowmids are a bit undefined (maybe tweak the percs a bit) and the vocal is a bit pitchy but it got some emotion, so not bad !

Dolphins drum are not at all convincing and not in the pocket. It should lock better with the rest of the band which sounds nice. Did you record the drum after the rest ??
It's kind of a show stopper for me, I can't pass the drum to analyse the rest of the mix.. sorry.

Dima, post: 448564, member: 50447 wrote: when I mix professionally recorded tracks, my mixes are considerably better

Of course they are. That's the way it is, the way it's always been, and what so few home recording "hobbyists" fail to grasp.

Pay attention to the details while recording - such as mics and mic placement, gain structure, and solid performances ( as opposed to relying on some new flavor of the month plug-in to "fix it in the mix" later).

If you have a set of tracks that were recorded nicely, your final mixes will absolutely show it. And, the better the original tracks sound, the less you'll need to do to them in the mix, and the less time you'll end up spending working on the mix, which means that you're not burning out your ears working on a "compensation" session - that can take sometimes DAYS to do, and more often than not, still doesn't sound all that great.

But ... when you are working with tracks that are well-recorded to begin with, you are doing an actual mix session - instead of a "repair" session ( compensating for poorly recorded tracks).
Having done my fair share of both types of mix sessions over the years, I can absolutely and unequivocally state that working with great-sounding tracks in an actual mix session, is a lot more fun and less taxing than working with tracks that were poorly recorded to begin with. ;)

FWIW

pcrecord, post: 449215, member: 46460 wrote: Home sounds good,
The lowmids are a bit undefined (maybe tweak the percs a bit) and the vocal is a bit pitchy but it got some emotion, so not bad !

Dolphins drum are not at all convincing and not in the pocket. It should lock better with the rest of the band which sounds nice. Did you record the drum after the rest ??
It's kind of a show stopper for me, I can't pass the drum to analyse the rest of the mix.. sorry.

Thank you for the replay... The drum track on Dolphins was added last. The track is VSTi(Addictive Drums), the original acoustic Drum track was badly performed so we decided to remove it all together and replace it with VSTi.
When you say "drum are not at all convincing and not in the pocket" do you mean the part it self could be improved or do you mean that more work should be done to improve the mix it self?

Dima, post: 449374, member: 50447 wrote: "drum are not at all convincing and not in the pocket" do you mean the part it self could be improved or do you mean that more work should be done to improve the mix it self?

If I'm correct, this is in relation to "Dolphin", and I think what Marco is saying is that the drums are sitting "outside the pocket" - the "pocket" being the general groove and feel of the song.

You've got moments where other instruments are doing that too, as well as sections of lead vocals that are rushing against the drum track...or in this case, perhaps the drum track is lagging behind the vocal.

If you were to listen to just the drums, I don't think you'd hear much of a problem, but when the other tracks are relating to it, is where the groove sorta falls apart.
This can be typical of a drum part when the drums are added after the other instruments have already been recorded; it's not easy to play a drum part to a song that's already had other parts recorded.

A certain amount of "push-pull" is cool to have, as it's a human feel thing... but it doesn't really work unless all the parts are pushing and pulling together, at the same time.

And, shuffle grooves are tough to lock to begin with. There's a certain "relaxation" to a shuffle groove. If you've got some instruments sitting "too high" ( on top of the beat) and other tracks pulling back in a more "late" ( sitting back) feel, then you've got rhythmic conflict going on, and it's tough to feel the groove.

As per the sounds of the drums themselves, that's a personal taste thing. I don't think that any opinions on the sound of the drums would be definitive - it's all about what the person listening prefers, and that's hard to call it as being "right" or "wrong".
What sounds good to you might not be my sonic preference, or vice versa; at that point you should stick to your own vision for the overall sound.

But the "feel" part of it - at least as it stands now - would probably bother real drummers, and the real drummers among us here on RO ( present company included ;) ) because of the nature of the groove you are after but aren't really getting.

IMHO of course... take all the above for what it's worth. ;)

Thanks Donny... I think I get the idea, I'll keep all that in mind and try to make the project I'm currently working on better, I will post it ones its complete. Thank you for the replay... I'ts really helpful.