Help with Mixing Acoustic Tunes

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I posted awhile back asking a similar question and now that I've finally recorded some new stuff, I'm back.

I'm trying to put together a few acoustic versions of tunes from Chrono Trigger. Most recently, I started playing with Guardia Millennial Fair. I decided to take what I have so far (not much) and attempt to mix it a bit for the sake of experimentation. I'm not sure how I've done with this so I wanted to ask for opinions and help here (because you guys are awesome).

Anyway, here's a sample: https://www.dropbox.com/s/qtpakzyvzdc0aal/faire-mix-r1.mp3

Please bear in mind that this is far from complete. The opening is sparse and the bass drops out at the end, for example, but it picks up a bit in the middle where you can get a good feeling for the mix.

Thanks, folks! Specific feedback is great, but so are general tips for mixing acoustic stuff like this, as there are others I'm working on as well.

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That bad, huh?

Listening to this again, the bass seems a bit muddy and undefined. I'm not sure how to deal with that. I think the raw track sounds that way too, so maybe it's not just the mixing. Dunno.

[Flexstyle]

I recall listening to it on some cheap earbuds and not really hearing anything glaring a week or so ago. I can take a closer listen later on, if you'd like, though.

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Any suggestions would be great. I considered posting this to work-in-progress, but wasn't sure I had enough here to warrant that.

Thanks!

[Flexstyle]

Honestly, you're going to get the most feedback out of the WIPs board.

[Argle]

The mix sounds solid enough in these headphones, which admittedly aren't the best. 90% of the work in acoustic mixes is the micing. Get it right and your mix job is very simple. Get it wrong and you'll waste hours. Sounds like you mic'd things pretty well.

[timaeus222]

I agree that the micing is quite good. If I were you I would have liked this result too.

[Overswarm]

Sounds good to me. The panning seemed a little hard; personal opinion is that the rhythm guitar doesn't need to be pushed so far to the left.

That's just personal opinion though.

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Cool, thanks so much for taking a listen. I'll go ahead and drop this in the WIP forum.

I agree that the panning could use some work. I'm using Ableton Live and just dropped one of the pre-baked mastering racks into the set and tweaked it a bit. The rack uses some stereo EQ to widen the output and pushes panned tracks further to the right/left. I diminished this effect, but not very much.