MIX CHALLENGE - MC093 August 2023 - Winners announced

[Dodgingrain]

Hopefully I didn't miss the deadline.
https://1drv.ms/u/s!AqpB-RLndYJrlP8ncbM ... g?e=gifhAJ


Rev2 changes:
- remixed piano is more upfront and centered
- balance between lead and backing vocals adjusted
- added tremolo at end of jazzy section on bass and organ
- added some automation in a few spots and some small adjustments to eq

[Mister Fox]

A friendly reminder:
We're in the final 24 hours to submit your edit for Mix Round 2.


So far, we have 4 out of 15 entries, with a bit more than 23 hours left on the clock.

There will be no deadline extensions! Please get your edit submitted today.

[jw_]

Thank you for selecting my mix for the top15!

Here's round 2:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1B0Y3Il ... drive_link

and this is what I did:
-air air air
-tamed drums
-more reverse piano reverb in the jazzy section
-bass tremolo in the jazzy section
-more verb in the battle section
-cut piano from battle section
-demo vox up a lot
-bgv up in places
-ac guitars up
-panning automation here and there

[scottfitz]

hi all,
I have addressed the different sections to try to give more representation of the story. This involved mainly doing all the things that Gaz listed. Some way into the work, another forum member, sthauge, reminded me that he’d noticed my mix was lacking in depth and I started reading about an engineer he mentioned called Bruce Swedien.
After this diversion, I came back to the mix wanting to change the whole sound to a much more natural one, but I realised this was what Gaz was asking for anyway

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The most fun section was the battle, in which used these devices:

1) “shoot shoot shoot” sections panned 4 different ways randomly ordered to increase the sense of disorientation.
2) Screams were given delays basically so we get generally a lot more screaming.
3) The guitar has a multi-tap delay which is panned the opposite side to give hopefully a bit of a ‘bursts of bullets’ flavour. Also in the solo I add a longer multi-tap delay at the highest repeated note.
4) The whole section is louder than the rest of the song for added shock value.
5) The drums have distortion.
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there’s lots of automation as instructed and less compression as a result.
Cheers all, here’s the link

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_4Ro5T ... drive_link

thanks again to Gaz Williams and to Mister Fox

[Mork]

Hey,

sadly I can’t meet the deadline due to life.
It’s a shame, I really like the song!

Good luck everyone!

[ari5to5]

Hi all,

Thanks for the comments Gaz.

My revised mix here:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1h6c7mP ... sp=sharing

I tried to address all the issues raised.

I hope you like it.

Cheers

[ari5to5]

and I've just realized that I uploaded the wrong version -the bass is muted..oops..

[O'MIX]

Hello,
Here is my proposal for the second round, I followed the recommendations as best as possible, the song Yes mainly served as a reference, I reworked the balance and the final color using for the first time an analog summing +Daw (so it's not just mixed in the box) I hope you like it, for my part I'm happy with what I did (which is rarely the case for me...)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/12AqFjL ... sp=sharing

Happy listening to all !

[Manii]

Here is my entry for round 2 : https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/4m7u9864 ... ng1ch&dl=0

- I reworked the balance of the vocals and the background vocals
- I reduced the drums in general
- I reworked the radio effect
- I added tremolo on the bass in the jazzy section
- I further played with the automation

Good luck to all participants!

[Hoek]

Hi fellow challengers, song providers, moderators and guests! (Hope that covers everyone here )

How exciting to be in the finals!
I had to do my revision last minute and with severe congested sinuses, nose, throath and maybe ears too...Damn flu, but I crawled down to my studio to make these changes anyhow, sorry if I went overboard with the treble, can't really tell!

From artist feedback and my own notes I made these changes to my mix:

Backed off some compession on drums (Individual tracks and bus, also paralell bus) Hey I'm a metal guy so the heavyhandedness comes without thinking!

Let some more treble through on Oh:s, piano, acc. guitars

Drastically lowered the piano to let the organ be the star of the show in said part.

Raised BG vocals quite a lot overall and even more in last chorus.

added a masterbus eq shelf 2 db at 12 k (sides only) and 1 db bump at 870 hz

I played around with levels on sound fx and prophet synths and also did some more automation on drums and piano.

Added a ghosty fx on the piano in the bridge part.

Switched out a compressor on lead vocals for another similar that I found tonally more suiting.

Added some tube saturation on bass group with an additional la2a type compressor.

And tremolo on bass (Only the amp tracks, left the Di alone.)

Here goes:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HnPyDR ... sp=sharing

Thank you and good night!
/Hoek