Instrumental post-rock: bash me!

[axertes]

Hey all.

This is my first attempt at an original recording. Before this I was just farting around with snippets of covers, from metal to ambient. I was going for a kinda 'post-rock' kinda thing, in the vein of Grails if anyone knows them.

Anyway, it's 'complete'-ish up until 2:25, when I'm planning on writing another guitar line, then who knows from there...

Gear:
'Rhythm' Guitar:
Ibanez SZ520QM, kinda like a cheap PRS ripoff, in drop B (sort of: B F# B E F# B actually)
ProCo Rat
Line 6 DL4
Boss GE-7
Traynor YCV80
SM57
Lexicon Lambda
Cubase LE4

'Lead' (violin) guitar:
All this, plus...
Cello bow
Clean boost
Really bassy pre-gain EQ

Bass:
OLP 5-string Stingray ripoff
DI into Lambda
Amplitube + Ampeg SVX

Drums:
EZdrummer. Ha.

Mic placement, method:
Mic about up to grille, about 15* angle toward centre-ish.
Brandon-inspired 'guitar fort', except mine is made of couch cushions and sleeping bags haha. My leads are long enough to build it in the next room. Works surprisingly well, I think.

Other comments:
No smoke and mirrors, i.e. it's all 2 guitars, 1 bass, 1 drums. No doubling, overdubbing etc. A bit of light comp on guitars in Cubase, that's about it. Oh and Cubase verb on the violin guitar. My Verbzilla broke Oh, and I know there's little clippy artifacts in the violin guitar when it starts going staccato. Played with the gain in cubase, screwed it up, couldn't undo... must do another take

Things I especially need help with:
1. Low bass frequencies. Sounds good to me on my monitors. Then I play it back on computer speakers with a little subwoofer and *FAAART*: the bass freq overwhelms everything. My monitors are KRK Rockit 6s. Tried cutting certain frequencies and had no joy. Can anyone suggest any fixes?

2. Overall volume. It's too damned quiet! I really have no idea what to do here. It's kinda a dynamic song so I'm afraid of compressing the lot. Can't just up the master slider in Cubase 'cause it's already peaking.

...apart from that, bash as usual. Thanks in advance for any interest/advice/bashing.

[rca33]

Hi.

In cubase, you can cut (in several ways) the initial noise from this recording.

Regarding the bass, I don’t hear too much of it so it can cause what you mean.

I can hear a lot of background noise. Maybe you could try some noise gate.

Regarding the overall volume, I always need to apply compression on the final mix (or hard limiting) to make them sound as loud as most commercial albuns.