hey biggles, I've gotten a lot of those comments about my music, i think the most prevalent one was the distortion getting in the way too much, so i know if i ever make some more songs i'll try to dial it down a lot. i really don't know much about compressors or gates or even equalizing, i use some cheap headphones so its hard to kind of figure out what they really sound like. but music has always been a every once in a while hobby for me. these songs were put together over two years with not a spectacular amount of effort. just everyonce in a while i'd write something or make a beat. glad you like some of them and thanks for listening!

also have some new videos uploaded if anyone interested in critiquing or w/e:
http://www.youtube.com/jumar1987