Thanksgiving Day (the song)

I recently completed a new song called 'Thanksgiving Day'. This is a rock and roll song that I would describe as a combination of early Beatles and Green Day. It's a very simple song from an arrangement and chord standpoint but I ended up remixing it three times. In general I find that mixing distorted guitars really takes some talent. You (usually) want distorted guitars to be loud and in your face but because they take up so much of the mid-range, they literally compete with just about everything else in your mix. I ended up backing a lot out of the bass and upper frequencies on the guitar tracks and compressed the heck out of the lowend. It's better that what I started with but still not quite where it should be. I have so much more respect for the professionals that really get this right (and I have much to learn!). I find that mixing clean guitars are usually much easier. One trick that I have learned (by reading and mostly trial and error) is that distorted guitar patterns usually benefit greatly by multi-tracking with variation in pick-ups, eq, guitars, amp gain, mic placement, etc...

Thanksgiving Day