Mix Challenge

On one hand, I understand and mostly agree. With time I've found out that using the least processing possible has way more benefits than the opposite. On the other hand, I can see stuffing the mix bus and different mix groups with plugins as a valid approach as well. I don't mean throwing plugins j...

Given your reservations regarding the source material, perhaps consider offering up your position to someone else. I have no issue, either way, but if you decide to bow out, then please let me know as soon as possible. Thanks. Once participants for Round 2 have been announced, and any one of the se...

I updated the announcement post with the "wild-card". The same rules apply as for everyone else for Mix Round 2. Good luck. Regarding the "summing bus treatment discussion", I kicked off a dedicated thread. You can find that one (for the time being) here: http://www.mix-challenge...

The following questions pop up over and over. What do you mean when you say "try to not(!) pre-master the track (please no overuse of mix bus treatment)"? shouldn't we just use fixed loudness values on the final render and the participant can decide how much treatment he uses on the summin...

Thank you for handling the evaluation, el-bo. Let us kick off Mix Round 2, which will end on Wednesday, 31-MAY-2017 11:59pm GMT+1/CEST (check Berlin / DE on the forum world clock) The following 8 participants go into Round 2 (alphabetical order) davemcisaac erictracks HerbFelho Mork Nonlinear Octopu...

Funny that you bring that up, because there is currently a lot of confusion along with (sadly often wrong) information floating around on the internet. Let's start with the "death of MP3"/patent expiration of MP3 first - which can be misleading (I can agree to that). In fact, the "lic...

17 entries! Lot's of good competition! I think the new format is working out :tu: Thanks for counting the participant amount for me. Definitely appreciated. And yes, I really hope the new format/place works out on the long run. More than 15 participants is already a good start. I try to respond in ...

It is the 22nd May 2017, 0:23o'clock GMT+1/CEST - the first Mix Round has officially ended We have 17 participants, no submissions after the deadline Please check all if your links again, make them downloadable. Those that uploaded MP3s only, please take note: providing a FLAC (on low bandwidth)/WAV...

Would be good to have a separate discussion on the “mastering rules” since I also see the current state quite problematic. As I see it there is no more clear distinction between mixing and mastering these days. In the end it´s about making a song sound great, how this is achieved should be up to th...

I'm not saying you should do the same, but I think perhaps if there were a more simple/straightforward rule, such as a maximum allowed LUFS, as onerob suggested, decided separately for each mix challenge, you would avoid this gradual competitive loudness wars problem. It might be better to move thi...