Mix Challenge

I'm not 100% sure if this could be called jazz If I understood the rules correctly, it doesn't have to be jazz for this competiton. It said production "that have a relaxed feel (easy listening), OR is "background type" jazz music". I listened couple of hours of muzak examples fr...

This is my interpretation what happens to 50-70’s music when one tranforms it to relaxed instrumental background music by pressing it through modern muzakian filter. (Hopefully I’m still within the genre of competition) Structure of this song is typical simple country from 50’s: intro, verse, chorus...

I'll send my muzak maybe tomorrow or friday. I haven't participated in these songwriting competitions before.

Very nice material to mix! The task is to make a ”mix that feels like it is being performed on a small stage, or even a jazz bar. ”. Further with ”warm sound with a solid and round low end”. So I visioned in my head a set up: - real drums without mics - other instruments with their own amplifiers - ...

Fun project to mix. When I listened this song I immediately decided to make a late 60’s influenced mix. After some tests I decided to pan drums to the left and bass to the right. And somewhere in the center is acoustic guitar. DRUMS In my mix drums are mono with a little bit stereo room. No special ...

Surely one of the most inspiring competition track’s that I’ve heard I tried to do a smooth late 70’s sound. On every track mainly basic eq, compression and delay tricks. These tracks didn’t need much mixing time. Bonus treatment: Kick and toms: I tried new BozDigital Sasquatch plugin to enhance the...

Very nice track to mix My main reference for this song was Audioslave. Hopefully it can be heard. Preview mix was already excellent. After listening Audioslave I made mine a bit more low heavy and darker than Preview-mix. Drums: I aimed at roomy sound. I used fake room, delays and parallel distortio...

...meanwhile, we can all discuss about the mix. :) For example, I have a question for all.... how loud do you each think the kick/bass/sub/low freqs in general are leveled in your mix? I mean, the original/rough mix was no short than ' beyond extreme' IMO in that respect. When I was working on my m...

Cool song with lot of experimental ideas. I’ve been listening Daniel Lanois lately. So maybe for that reason I experimented with different kind of delays quite a lot. Otherwise my mix was basic eq-adjustments. Preview mix was extrelmely low end heavy, so I quess also competition mix should be that. ...

Cool song for this month, started work on my mix today. :) "No rearrangement or pitch shifting of the song structure, with the exception of the following add-on rules" I need to re-pitch the kick drum about 1 semi-tone, is that permitted? Reason being it really sounds bad when saturation/...