That sounds great. How the hell do they get a mix like that? I mean, granted im using Addictive Drums, but the rest of it... how do they get it to sound so full?
By the way, Just tried recording four guitars instead of two. Not gonna bother posting it cause its a huge fucking mess and didnt work. So more guitars is NOT the answer.
I'd like to hear the mix anyway, might be able to figure out where you're going wrong.
The mix itself doesn't sound bad in any way. It's definitely on the thin side of things, but it's completely and totally listenable.
To start with... I'm no engineer, nor am I that good a guitarist... But I'll offer some tricks I've picked up along the way.
But if you want to thicken things up I'd suggest you start from the bottom. The bass just isn't there. All I'm hearing from the bass is top end. You're missing all that low end that will help support your guitar riffs and thicken the overall tone. Most of the top end that is currently there can get cut off as it's sitting in guitar territory right now.
When EQing your bass tones... Do NOT listen/EQ to it on it's own. Solo'd bass tracks often sound awful, but fit perfectly in the entire mix.
Addictive Drums... Are you using a custom preset? I've found many of the stock presets need some tweaking before they're usable. The defaults tend to take up too much space in a mix. Usually the cymbals are a problem. The first thing I do with a preset is to make sure the cymbals are panned quite far to each side, then I usually shorten their decay. From there I usually knock a couple DB off the room/OH mics. Either way, listen to your mix with AD on then with it off. If everything becomes clearer and fuller with the drums muted then you'll probably have to play with them a little more.
Guitars... Usually if I'm only using two tracks I'll have one EQ'd to take care of the highs and upper mids, and one guitar to take care of the lows and lower mids. It seems like what you've done is basically use two bright guitar tracks and combined them to make an even brighter guitar sound. If you're currently EQing them the same, try leaving all that treble in one, but knocking it out on the other and bumping up the lows and the lower mids slightly on the other.
When I record 4 guitar tracks I use a similar approach. Two brighter guitars two darker ones. To avoid the slop what I'll usually do is just record each tone once and then double it. So both bright guitars are the same recording both dark guitars are the same recording. Then generally I'll put a slight time offset on the copied tracks of 0.01-0.1s to give it some space. From there you just have to tweak the levels and panning until things sound right.
Speaking of doubling things. This works well on the bass too. If you've got a thin bass track, duplicate it and add a slight time offset. If you feel your bass is lacking top end, instead of brightening up or thinning out your bass, duplicate your track then pitch shift it up an octave and layer the two together.
A mastering tool like Izotope Ozone can really help liven things up.