Mix Challenge

Hi there, This is my road to the mix I made (see link below). I noticed that the track had an open arrangement with not too many layers sounding at the same time. So I wanted to let the elements that where not part of the beat to realy stand out without overshadowing the kck (that felt for me the mo...

Congratulations! Well deserved.

I hope I can help out with some new content for later this year. I´ll do my best but can´t promise yet.

Jeroen

Mix for round 2 → I tried to address most of the requests. I did some frequency rebalancing, added a bit more automation, and added gain to percussive elements. I like the sound of your mix. It is a snappy compressed sound in a good way. Makes it feel very loud and therefor gives it a lot of energy.

Here it is, my revision of the mix. I started of course with the comments from the songprovider. Then I noticed a lot more room for improvement. A lot of small adjustments, eq, volume level, fx and automations all added up to make a fuller and bigger sound. I had a lot of fun mixing this song. You c...

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Sun May 08, 2022 10:55 CEST

oops - i forgot to write down one comment for

067 - JeroenZuiderwijk (Wild Card):

the distortion on the outro synth sounds very digital. try to make it more analog and pleasing ;-)

Many thanks for the detailed and very specific comments!

am i understanding it correctly that the use of a wild card is something only the song provider can give you? Or do I need to activate that option myself somewhere (so that I still make a change of going to the next round)? and if so....where and how, that wasn't clear to me after reading the instru...

Hi there, One of the better songs I´ve been mixing for mixchallenges so far. The vocals did need a lot of attention. So there was some tuning (Reatune in Reaper) but that didn't do the trick for all parts. So I sliced the vocalnotes and treated them seperately with a pitchshift plug in. I later cros...