Mix Challenge

Interesting comment. For me I felt the original recordings were a bit muddy and not harsh. What I struggled with besides the amount of tracks in the same freq. range was how to remove some of that low end and create a more open wide mix without making the mix harsh. And dealing with the backing voca...

My revisions are below. This is a far tougher mix than it would appear to be. My overall philosophy was a wide open mix. - there‘s still a bit of a honkiness/hollowness in my voice which I don‘t like that much I've adjusted the eq to take that range down a little bit and I added back in some subtle ...

Another thing that puzzles me is the need for "pitching" the material. Yes, the songwriter is not a professional singer (it's still a great performance!), but this is what gives the production character IMO. I agree with you on the pitching. My thought was that the lead vocal was good as ...

Here are mine, I really enjoyed the song, thanks for letting us take a shot at mixing it. I spent most of the time trying to eq the parts to fit well with each other and quite a bit of time widening out the track. I did my best to tune the background vocals where they were off pitch. I have no idea ...

Thanks guys, this was a lot of fun and I enjoyed the track. I choose Metric Halo Character for my prize.

Hey all,
mp3: https://1drv.ms/u/s!AqpB-RLndYJriPslIVVgReCUhDYvVg

wav: https://1drv.ms/u/s!AqpB-RLndYJriPsmOJGR-mJATFBoBg

I centered the hats, made some small adjustments to the drum levels, added some filter sweeping to the bass and enhanced the stereo image of the bass.

Thanks,

Hey guys. I've never done one of the contests before and I'm new to mixing. I tried to stay relatively true to the reference mix. wav: https://1drv.ms/u/s!AqpB-RLndYJriPsW1ihcF-L3bgBboQ mp3: https://1drv.ms/u/s!AqpB-RLndYJriPsVWpk9UvPciQOr5Q Some of the stuff I did was use a reverse reverb, sweep ba...