i honestly think you should refrain from mastering muna. a mix can sound very nice despite the lack of mastering. maybe masyadong madami kang iniisip and it's clouding up your focus on "proper" mixing. i wish you all the best skunk. sana nga mahuli mo sa part 2 yung tamang tunog 
walang makakapag sabi kung ano yung tamang tunog, pero pag nadinig ng tao at naisip nilang "ang ganda!", yun na yon. let go of theory and listen. blindly tweak if u must.
good luck.
oo nga Skunk.. mix it to the best of your abilites hehehe 
.. Hazel..ok na yung mix mo.. i sent you my work..check your email.. i sent the mp3 and .wav file..
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skunk..just ask Hazel how her recording sounded.. it was a GOOD mix to start with kaya " i think i did the job well too".. 
ay salamat ng madami baldo. sobra. i'll check it today.
frankly though my mix is far from perfect in terms of having all the sound in my head translated into the actual sound of the mix. madami pa akong naiimagine na tunog na hindi ko parin talaga mahuli. i think i let jepoy listen to the version that was a bit darker and he let a guitarist friend listen to it too. sabi nung kaibigan nya hindi daw nya type yung tone ng guitar (i know guitarists are very very particular about their guitar tone) but he did say bumagay sa genre at sa kanta overall. yun naman ata importante because god knows you can't please every guitarist. LOL.
skunk im familiar with that snare bleed problem. it's a bitch because when you try to cut at the frequencies where the hats invade the track, the overall quality of the snare changes. here's how ive dealt with the problem in the past. i compress the way i want it (and i usually compress to a point where it becomes "explosive". this will definitely bring up the hats). then i gate tightly. it wont sound nice. underneath that i put the same uncompressed, ungated snare sound. nangyayari parang upward compression (dunno im not really familiar with theory). you have the gated explosive sound on top of the natural sound. it worked for a me a lot of times. plus i am able to minimize the bleed that way. also you might wanna try drum sampling on top of the real drum sound. the advantage is you can compress and limit this sampled snare sound to death without the bleed. ive heard of dave grohl tracking drums without hats and cymbals so that they can compress tre tracks to high heavens.
one more thing i do when the hats become truly irritating at some point is that i automate by bringing down the level of the parts where hats and/or cymbals assault the ears, haha. i normally dont use a hihat track and just rely on the hats from the overheads. not very ideal but this is because i dont love the b8pro sound, plus i usually run out of mics. in any case, my theory runs thus: i can't get that warm unobtrusive hat sound because i dont have a warm unobtrusive 13 inch pair of fusion hats. lol. di ko magets kung bakit ganon tunog ng hats ko dati but when a friend loaned me his ns10's i kinda figgered out the b8pro sucks big time.
also, mics on hats count as much as anywhere else. tried micing hats with an sm 57 and i got a lot of weirdness to the track, like the mic was being pushed too much and there was a bit of distortion, not clipping but more like the distortion you get from fast attack and release times on a compressor. wrong mic, i guess.
one more suggestion on bringing down that ultra-washy, thin hat sound is by using a multiband on the the overheads. the uad precision multi-band is quite good (or maybe the interface just looks pretty enough to fool me into thinking it sounded better than the other multibands ive tried). multiband compression makes things complicated and i try to stay away from it as much as possible. but there are times that a track cannot be fixed by anything else but that.
