Hey cool. Not bad for a first try. You don't think that mixing is as easy as you thought it was eh? (That almost made me sound Canadian eh?) Well enough of that. You really have to play with that compressor to get the bass drum to pump like that. This comes in adjusting attack and release times and selecting a ratio that works. When you get the release times just right, you'll get it pumpin'. The guitars are thicker because more compression was utilized on them, different EQ, different recording techniques. You might want to try some re-amp tricks on the guitar tracks? Then go ahead, stick a limiter on those guitars too. Maybe they were using ribbon microphones on the original Phoenix guitar tracks? That's what it sounds like to me and Royer's have become very popular in that application. Those don't sound like your grandma's SM57's. But you might consider a Cascade's since those are quite affordable? I know everyone is taught in recording schools to make that kind of bass drum sound because that's the most exciting. But it sounds like you're not all pumped up with nowhere to mix? You're almost there. I could say practice practice practice or, refinement refinement refinement. And sometimes the use of fast downward expansion a.k.a. Gates can augment that pumping effect, in combination with the compression. This can all be accomplished in both hardware and software. And crunching an entire two track mix is sometimes required if your mix didn't sound this way when you mixed it. So that can become part of the mastering step if it doesn't come off your two track bus this way to begin with. And if you can make it do that in the mastering process. So some of this takes multiple engineers with a multitude of techniques. Again equalization also plays in as a factor during your mixing. You are using software equalization and maybe you are listening to a Neve ferrite core inductor equalizer? Ain't goin' sound the same, guarantee told Ya.

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Thanks a lot man! I've tried to mix more in the last few days and here's what i got.
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I like this mix better now because the bottom pumps more, but the problem has shifted to the guitars' presence and the snare which I can't get it to cut through without it sounding too high-pithced. I can hear a clean, strong, spacious snare transient in the original mix but nowhere in mine.

Besides the negatives, I've started to explore on how to use gates effectively and the other hardware equipments, thanks a lot!