Appreciate the honesty Protoplasym. Yeah I hate the fact I have to mixdown on phones, it sucks balls! But I try to take everything on board, and adjust it as best I can, so if you have any pointers like Lucid has given me then I really do appreciate them......I dont take negativity to heart, I use it as a positive.
Like I'm starting to realise now that when hats sound good and spot on in my phones, they generally sound too hi passed to everyone else. So from now on when I get the hats sounding right to me, I'm then gonna drop the high end a little to compensate. Also when the volume of the snares sound good to me, I'm gonna up it by a db or 2 because I've been told a couple of times now that the volume could be upped a little, in a couple of my tracks. This is all from the feedback I have recieved on this forum, and a pattern thats beginning to emerge in my mixdowns. So the more detailed feedback I can get the better.