Thank you, Zep! You’re a great producer and I trust your ears more than mine - especially after numerous listens while mixing. I’ll rework the balance.

It’s a common problem for all of us. Yeah the key is one is too close to one’s own mixes. It’s much easier to pick up details with fresh ears rather than when you are mixing yourself. I have remixes I was very pleased at the momement of making it, but some weeks later I’m amazed of what crappy mixes I’ve made.

By the way, I can give you a one of the “secrets” that may get vocals cut through more easily without going into tedious volume riding or editing. Group drums, other instruments and vocals in to #3 separate groups and EQ a 2 to 4 dB drop somewhere around 1-2 kHz range (depends on vocals) in the “Other instruments”. You have to mess around with the Q-value, but you could get vocals cut through without too much noticable difference on the overall picture.
This is just a quick fix, but it can work on many occasions when one’s too lazy to do more work on the vocal tracks. ;) There are many other tricks, but they involve more work.

Quick fix for the lazy - that’s exactly what I need (well, I would not call myself lazy but I fail on EQ-ing often…). I’ll try that. Thx!

Quick fix quickly added :)

Don’t know what you did, but now you can hear the lyrics.

Danke, Hans!

Thank you, texas!

Thank you! More than 2 years went by since then. Now listening to this track again I can only say: the guitar part totally sucks :)