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If you're now thinking: "Yeah well, but now my other instruments are kind of drowned in the rest", I can reassure you -- It's not gonna happen. One often underestimates how well quiet instruments come through in a mix if they're equalized cleverly.
One more advise for rock songs: If you want to make your song sound powerful, put your drums into the foreground (atonal instruments sometimes require more volume than you would expect). Next, the vocals and one of your guitars (if you got some), then the next guitar together with the bass guitar. At least I underestimated for a long time how much drums actually contribute to a powerful sound impression.
And one more psychological advice: Don't let the graphics influence your mind and power of judgement. I know that sometimes they distracted my acoustic perception a bit, so I often hid my software interface while monitoring, or just opened a track mixer window in order to fully focus on the acoustic impression.
(c) Linus Schachten 2010 (Hamburg, Germany). All Rights Reserved Worldwide.
My brother and I recorded the brilliant song "White Room" by Cream and shot a video, too. For the video soundtrack we took our studio recording, put a 'Space Designer' on the output track, and adapted the reverb to the acoustic features of the room we were shooting the video in. If you want to know how this sounds without 'over-applying' the level of reverb, click on Linus & Dino "White Room"!
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