Hey all! thanks for your great comments on the tracks. I'm enjoying this more with each listen!
Since it's been brought up a few times, yeah, i agree that the vocals on my AViD track are quite high in the mix. If you saw my bedroom set-up, you'd laugh!
A laptop, a desktop comp, a couple mics, guitars and amps. Nothing fancy at all, and i'm sorry the track suffers from lower quality production values than most of these others.
The vocals themselves were recorded with a simple mic, then treated several times in Sound Forge and Acid Pro to get the level of vocoderization and distortion that i wanted, albeit with some clipping. The middle, harder part of the song has doubled-up vocals (trying to sound menacing here!), which also causes the levels to get hot.