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The Hole Got Fixed said
Drums!!!

More drums!!!

Is that better, @ewe2?

Thanky, that will top up my addiction for now 

That mix sounds drastically closer to the White Album mix. Apart from some EQ on the guitar, what else did you do to make it sound the way it does compared to mix 6?  

I fixed some panning issues to start with (both guitars are on the right, the “lead” further out, the bass and drums are on the left) and as you mention a bit of EQ tweaking, but my favourite toy of the moment is the Calf multiband compression plugin for Audacity. This lets me boost the sub and the mid ranges and gives an EQ that sounds a bit like the “Techno” setting of your average player eq, so you feel the thump of the kick drum and bass a bit more and holds the midrange down without cranking the upper range on top of what I’ve already EQ’d. Taking the edge of the vocals helps too, it’s not as nicely clear as the original as I like but that original is surprisingly dark anyway, the real trick to that track is how its reverbed. I’ve mixed a reverb vocal alongside a clean one and I’ll be doing a similar thing to the drums, the vocals are a little to the right with the reverb across from the left and the drums are the other way, at least I hope that’s what will come out.

Also, completely off topic, I figured out the solo to Hey Bulldog yesterday on my trusty SG and I’m blown away by how simple and effective it is.

Mix 2 See what you think of the “weird bass” I did there. I love the drumming, we can’t all be Ringo but gee you can get close to a softsynth beat and still sound human. I went a bit overboard, there’s slapback delay AND reverb AND some toppy EQ to bring out the top of the snare and cymbals. The delay is a little strange but makes a nice mess when things get busy (you can hear some charming artifacts in the right channel, that’s not backwards thats the delay feeding back!). In my opinion its the slappy echo/reverb on the drums that makes it sound like the guitar has a bit of reverb on it in the original, but we really don’t need it though and might muddy things up trying to compete with reverb drums and voc als.

Mix #3 So I went back to the drawing board and changed my approach, tried a different reverb technique on the drums and stereo echo on the mix to widen the sound a bit, and I’m happier with the bass break now. It sounds a bit phased tho so I might tone that echo down a bit for the next mix, it sounds fine in audacity but mp3 format doesn’t like it too much.

OK new mix! Got the dreaded SG handclaps and I’ve sharpened them, thrown a bit of tape echo on and they help the snare out really well!

https://drive.google.com/open?…..Ts-pp69FHf

Also did some fooling around with the cmons and moved some things around, the rhythm guitar wasn’t really working on the right hand side so I moved it in near the centre and it cuts through much better.

Like I said, it’s the curse of reverb and because the drums are all in one track I can’t separate the EQ as much as I’d like. @Beatlebug ‘s claps have really helped out the snare, so I might try to find the kick and boost that a little, but where it is in the mix is pretty good considering the blizzard of stuff competing with it.

https://drive.google.com/open?…..0m7gTwyVKP

This pushes the rhythm guitar back a bit but the kick is there now.

sir walter raleigh said
There seems to be something slightly off between the vocal, rhythm guitar, and drums on verse one that magically goes away for the other two verses. 

Edit: well not magic, its @ewe2 production ability.   

I looked into this and its most likely my shambolic rhythm guitar which doesn’t perfectly follow the original, I like it although against the drums it’s a little squishy. My rhythm guitar heroes are Frank Black, Malcolm Young and John Lennon (with honorable Kurt Cobain mention) so there’s a good spectrum of super strong to shambolic there