Mix Challenge

hi all, great job everyone, I've listened to all the mixes and there's such an abundance of great work and cool ideas that have gone into this challenge. I particularly loved @JeroenZuiderwijk version and makes me wish I'd done a more creative mix. As a topic for discussion, I have been thinking abo...

No Escape - notes Hi all, What a great experience, every day I’m having this kick sound explode into my ears and scary sounds like knives being fired at me :) Thanks to @Jorgeelalto for the chance to work on your great music and not forgetting @MrFox for hosting and guiding us. What I found in attem...

Great tune Jorgeelalto, is going to be fun. One question on the stereo field. If this tune is designed expressly for a club, in which you will often be hearing the mix as mono, how much in the way of automated panning and stereo effects should we be using? I started out using loads, but then listeni...

Yeah, same here. Sometimes my ears get too focused on certain frequencies and I get my compressor settings wrong when I listen to the tracks after a few days. Fabfilter’s compressor is a great way to visualize what is going on but it can also trick you into “not hearing” what it’s doing too. If you...

I would say that it depends on what you want to do with the compressor. But if any sequence of tasks to set the compressor has been helpful to me, it has been probably this: http://hermetechmastering.com/compressors.html . Although sometimes, to set the release, I prefer starting from longer releas...

Hi all, I realised during this challenge that I am not as good as I want at setting the compressor times. I was told by a pro mixer friend of mine to get plenty of ratio, threshold and attack then focus on release setting. Next with release set with still plenty running through the compressor set th...

Thanks for this, that's a great response. My instinct with "Danser" was I thought it should be more sad, catering to my own artistic tastes. But later especially after hearing other versions of the track I started to question this. Is it best to make something pure and dedicated to the son...

hi to all mixers, As a point of discussion I was wondering how important you all thought it was to consider the mood and lyrics of the music when going to mixing decisions? Until very recently I thought this was vital, but then I've listened to lots of remixes as I'm also a member of the metapop sit...

Thanks so much Dirk, my mix defo badly guilty of the mid/side unbalance and I'm so pleased you've alerted me to this issue as I didn't even know it was something I need to be attentive of. I know I've got holes in my game but I've never had this one pointed out to me, I think sometimes other mixers ...

hey thanks so much fcamp, that's fantastic feedback, I'll put your suggestions into action on my next mix. To be honest I already think like this, but perhaps not being nearly aggressive enough with each of the EQs. The verb in mono I've never done before, so I'll give that a go too.
Cheers mate