Mix Challenge

nebukatnessar wrote: ↑

Sun Apr 23, 2023 22:15 CEST

I don't seem to be allowed to open the PDF's. So I'm not sure if I'm still in the game?

Don't worry, I don't think they've been finished and published yet!

I come to your mix, BenjiRave. Undeniably it's a very good mix. You managed to keep all the energy contained in this title. What gives a sound a little rough but completely in the spirit of the composition. I particularly like the vocals. Great timbre. Regarding the drums, as discussed during our e...

BenjiRage, well, the storm in a glass of water has passed. I come back to you on the subject (among other things) of the snare in the drum kit. Your remarks are correct on one specific point: in a usual "normal" situation, it makes sense to use a gate, software version. Unfortunately, it'...

Waouh @BenjiRage, I would have been a little more cautious in your pretrial assertions... There, you live the story of the sprinkler yourself. In fact I am very flattered that you find that my numerous manipulations on the tracks of the drums "sound" like samples... I just listened to you...

Let me throw something else into the mix that you might not have heard about: spectral processing. It's a term I've heard but I can't say I've owned or used any specific "spectral processing" tools. Thanks for the info though, I'll check some of these out and hopefully improve my game. Ho...

One thing of note though... Do not underestimate the power of equalizing and compression/transient shaping. You can drastically change the tone of drums just by these two tools alone. I gave a quick (and dirty) example during MC084 / February 2022 for this very topic. This is very true and a great ...

Thanks for taking the trouble Ben. Pretty much agree with your criticism, It's nice to hear I didn't overdo the low end too! The drums. After listening to the mixes up to when I downloaded I could see they were going to be difficult so the first thing I did was spend an hour cleaning the tracks up ...

Ok folks, that was not easy. No time for snare jokes. And so many guitars - what could possibly go wrong. Dude you've nailed the energy of the song in your guitars, great work! Lovely contrast too between the verses and choruses! It sounds like you've added some delay work on them there too? I love...

Top of page 5 if anyone cares to comment. I'm a big boy, I can take criticism, I'm always trying to improve, I never get out of round one. lol. Hey Zed! I think you've got a good solid low end in your mix, the kick and bass guitar have a very good weight to them, not too little, not too much, just ...

Franz wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 21, 2023 23:20 CEST

Ditto for the drum tracks, which, once (vigorously processed) are therefore exported: I end up with a snare track, a kick track,
a toms track, an OH track and a room track.

That's a decent mix you've made there, Franz!

But....I'm going to call it, you've used sample replacement on the drums!