The Drake Equation

Also, yeah, duplicating the track would accomplish the same thing.  You've got the idea!  The only good thing about sending things through an aux (auxiliary) channel is that you can make a sum of specific tracks.  So, maybe if you wanted to process just the kick and the snare but leave everything else dry, you could do that.  But that's the great thing about audio.  There's almost always multiple answers to the same question! 

You'll always want a mic on the snare, even if it's a piece of shit.  Then at least you'll have a pattern down there in the waveform.  Then you can do what's called "cutting triggers" and replace the crappy snare with a better sounding sample.  You can really do that with any drum.  Do you know how to cut triggers?

Krubbz: Thanks for all the tips and compliments! Everything you said makes a lot ofsense and was totally the kind of feedback I was looking for. For the drums, I only had two mics available to use, so I had one for the kick and the other as an overhead, which left me with only one track recorded for all of the cymbals, toms and snare. I'll definitely take another look at  how I've got them EQ'd, because I think you're right about most of it being drowned out. And if "sending your drums to an aux" means what I think it means (duplicating the track then processing and mixing it differently), then I have already done that and feel like a cool dude for figuring such a trick out on my own . I'll try and mess with it for a better effect. I'm glad you enjoyed the track!

VR: My thought process for the drums in the left channel was that there is also chip drums playing the same pattern panned to the right.. I was going for a Deprecation Guild kind of a sound, but now that you're pointing it out, it probably makes more sense to keep them both relatively centered so the compliment each other more (you can barely hear the chip drums as it is I think). And no offense taken on the bass editing; I wanted this to sound as tight as possible because i know my playing (especially my drumming) is not. I spent just as much or more time editing the drums as I did the bass. Major thanks for the compliments on the composition, it means a whole lot. I'm still pretty new to writing my own music, so I'm glad to hear I'm on the right track

This is pretty good!  As far as mixing drums goes, did you record with an overhead mic?  I feel like the cymbals could use a little brightening up.  You could add a couple dB's between 10-12kHz.  Also, for me, drums and bass are a bit low in the mix sometimes.  Specifically, the snare sometimes gets drowned out by the other instruments.  A tip that I was taught is when mixing, typically, vocals (in this case your lead) and snare should be the most "present" things in the mix.  A good way to to test this out is to turn down your mix until instruments start to become inaudible.  The last things you can hear are the most present.  This probably seems obvious, but it sometimes can be hard to tell if you've been mixing for a while.  This helps to single them out.  I feel like the snare could be punchier.  Maybe you could add a bit of compression and EQ up a bit more of the "stick" sound on the snare.  Another fun tip while mixing drums is you can send your drums to an aux, then on that aux smash the crap out of the signal with a compressor.  You'll keep the original signal, and you can mix in the "smashed" signal to taste.  It can really make your drums sound huge!  Or grungy/dirty, depending on how low you set the threshold.  But that's good too, depending on what you're going for.  There are a lot of different ways you can use that trick!  These are just taste suggestions.  It sounds good already.  I really like the song.  It's catchy and has got a cool groove to it.  You did well!

acoustic drums are pretty much all in the left channel, why's that? the bass is edited really well; that probably sounds backhanded but i'll be the first to admit that i do the same thing pretty much ALL the time. most importantly, i think the composition is really well thought out with lots of timely development and progression, nice job on that!