Mix Challenge

Pål, thanks for the evaluation and for the hard work, congrats to those who won a ticket, and thanks for the answer on my question. For this type of instrumentation, the low end or hipassing needs a bit of a different strategy. Different from "Pop". Sibilance problems have been a real chal...

Pål, can I make a suggestion about the purpose in evaluating the work by the contestants? Everyone seeks some form of success, represented by audience, good critique, deal, and eventually payment. So in a way this should be part of what we are rehearsing here in symbolic ways. In most previous episo...

If we use those popular channel strips with analog emulation, we must feed them with the correct signal level. If we use only a floating poing purely digital EQ, then it matters only, how things add up at the master fader, that should be in some healthy position, not going all up or (nearly) all dow...

Thanks for your comments ... Thanks back for your remarks, and for the explanation on the drum processing, very enlightening and competent! Now I understand why it sounds good. Problems with piling up sounds and overload in a finale, I mitigate this with a stem bus structure, that gets compressed b...

I really loved this task, though meanwhile I know what to improve and what I have missed. The bell and the buzuki flago sounds are a bit weak, and it takes more automation on the reverb (a bit much of a huge celebration hall). Which is easy to tackle. JamesMusic yours is a truly remarkable mix, I sa...

@Mister Fox thanks so much, sorry for the file name,
I also would like to mention that there is at least one mix that i could not get to open (on Win 10) because of some conflict with the umlaut code.
Finally I did a file name change with retyping.

addendum for those interested: ask me for particular settings. stereo bus has IRON compressor with a preset that I had made some months ago. I automated the output so after the drum roll it gets 2dB louder, to get the main part up. the "bigness" of the sound is also thanks to IRON, but Ori...

Mix: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ygnoh1Sx-Cz7nlspt51Z60FZku5v9uxh/view?usp=sharing Thanks to the artist and producer for a beautiful piece of music! I hope you enjoy my take on it, with a little "magic forest" walk, that is somewhat cinematic. Most important is to construct the bus st...

Hey @White Punk OD , is it just a youtube issue on every math rock track I listen to or is the genre in general pretty squashed on the dynamics side? Seems they want some serious density, and Japanese mixes are going their own ways, but probably influenced by 80ies Punk and Hard Rock. math rock see...

Great to see Math Rock here! For different flavors, you might also listen to Elephant Gym (eg. on Audiotree w/interview) Polkadot Stingray (often mixing with catchy J-Rock hooks) Tricot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJW7kS9AAI4 example, always crossing over with Pop, it's a lot about how to positi...