I'm broke, no questions on gear. But as far as effects, reverb is killing me. If you listen to this Dokken song
http://search.playlist.com/tracks/don%20dokken you hear so many reverbs, I believe. At this point its hard to tell what is delay, what is verb on individual instruments or what is reverb on the whole mix. Seems like I'm having a hell of a time getting all the instruments to sound like they are in the same "space".
~Rob.