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MIX CHALLENGE - MC103 April 2025 - Mix Round 2 in evaluation
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Re: MIX CHALLENGE - MC103 April 2025 - Mix Round 2 until 12-MAY-2025 23:59 UTC+2/CEST
Had a blast in this contest, even with such a busy month. Hope you all enjoyed mixing too! This time, I only tweaked a few things—well, actually, I redid most of the mix because my headphones weren’t calibrated right. Thanks to SoundRadix, I got them sorted and nailed the mix. Haven’t checked it on other systems yet, but it sounds good here. Hope you dig it!
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MIX CHALLENGE - MC103 April 2025 - Mix Round 2 in evaluation
It's the 13th May 2025, 02:00 (UTC+2) - the 2nd Mix Round has officially ended.
STATISTICS
I will reach out to @Strange and forward all entries/statistics by sometime tomorrow (Wednesday, 14-MAY-2025). Please have an eye on this thread for more feedback and a possible Mix Round 3, or an announcement of the final results.
I'm now opening up the room (again) for Q&A's and giving each other feedback (which is highly encouraged)
Please check out all other games on the community. Most notably our Songwriting Competition - which is currently still in the submission and "work in progress" feedback period, with 12 days left on the clock.
Please also consider becoming a Song Provider. Our Song Pool is dry! We have no more content after May 2025! No more material means no more Mix(ing) Challenges. The genre is not important -- but it must be a finished production.
See you on the flipside.
STATISTICS
- Unfortunately, not everyone has sent in an edit (I count 12 out of 15), we therefore have 3 disqualifications (@Eastpark Sound, @Pentatonicdave and @Ronson79 didn't submit anything)
- We have 02 Wild Card uses to advance into the next round (03 were available this month)
- We have 01 participant that decided on not to advance through the use of a Wild Card (03 were available this month)
- We have 0 submissions after the deadline (and 01 bonus entry outside of the competition)
- We have 0 submissions that could not be downloaded by the time of this post and are therefore disqualified (re-checked 13-MAY-2025 2:00 UTC+2/CEST)
I will reach out to @Strange and forward all entries/statistics by sometime tomorrow (Wednesday, 14-MAY-2025). Please have an eye on this thread for more feedback and a possible Mix Round 3, or an announcement of the final results.
I'm now opening up the room (again) for Q&A's and giving each other feedback (which is highly encouraged)
Please check out all other games on the community. Most notably our Songwriting Competition - which is currently still in the submission and "work in progress" feedback period, with 12 days left on the clock.
Please also consider becoming a Song Provider. Our Song Pool is dry! We have no more content after May 2025! No more material means no more Mix(ing) Challenges. The genre is not important -- but it must be a finished production.
See you on the flipside.
Re: MIX CHALLENGE - MC103 April 2025 - Mix Round 2 in evaluation
Dear sound engineers of the second round,
thank you very much for your work. I have listened to each mix once so far and I can hear a clear “improvement” in all of them. This shows me once again: communication is everything. At first I thought I'd just listen to all the ideas without giving them much direction. However, I quickly realized that I wouldn't find the mix that I completely liked. In the second round, I only listen to mixes that I fundamentally like. Now it's more a question of small differences, small inaccuracies and ultimately my taste. I definitely want to take a close look at each individual work and try to justify my decision.
See you then
Greetings
Peter
thank you very much for your work. I have listened to each mix once so far and I can hear a clear “improvement” in all of them. This shows me once again: communication is everything. At first I thought I'd just listen to all the ideas without giving them much direction. However, I quickly realized that I wouldn't find the mix that I completely liked. In the second round, I only listen to mixes that I fundamentally like. Now it's more a question of small differences, small inaccuracies and ultimately my taste. I definitely want to take a close look at each individual work and try to justify my decision.
See you then
Greetings
Peter
Re: MIX CHALLENGE - MC103 April 2025 - Mix Round 2 in evaluation
Hi all,
I'll give feedback to the final 3 entries, not for any good reason, it's effectively selecting 3 at random.
@knob_Houdini
I find the delay on the verse vox a bit too crazy for my tastes, maybe just turn the feedback down. It's also a bit long lasting for the chorus, I find it hard to listen to other aspects of the music because I'm so distracted following all those delays
That said, I think you have a very decent balance. On chorus 2 I think that electric guitar can come down a touch. On the middle section I think the vox is jumping out too much vs the volume of the track. I like what you've done and I think it could definitely work like this with some more tweaks.
@Mork
Solid work. Love the verse. Coming into the chorus, the lead vocal level seems to drop, it also sounds a bit too different to the vocal sound we have just been listening to. I'm not sure what is causing this, but I would guess that you've separated the verse vox to a separate track and processed it differently. There's nothing wrong with doing that, but check it is consistent. The middle section is fine. I think your last chorus is cool, it's the hardest section to do well and I think yours works.
@JeroenZuiderwijk
Sounds cool to me! I like your use of saturation. On the chorus, it's interesting how it becomes more airy a texture with a prominent synth. I like the way it is, but just careful that it doesn't sound like a step down when it hits the chorus. Middle section works well. Last section also fine.
Cheers all
I'll give feedback to the final 3 entries, not for any good reason, it's effectively selecting 3 at random.
@knob_Houdini
I find the delay on the verse vox a bit too crazy for my tastes, maybe just turn the feedback down. It's also a bit long lasting for the chorus, I find it hard to listen to other aspects of the music because I'm so distracted following all those delays
That said, I think you have a very decent balance. On chorus 2 I think that electric guitar can come down a touch. On the middle section I think the vox is jumping out too much vs the volume of the track. I like what you've done and I think it could definitely work like this with some more tweaks. @Mork
Solid work. Love the verse. Coming into the chorus, the lead vocal level seems to drop, it also sounds a bit too different to the vocal sound we have just been listening to. I'm not sure what is causing this, but I would guess that you've separated the verse vox to a separate track and processed it differently. There's nothing wrong with doing that, but check it is consistent. The middle section is fine. I think your last chorus is cool, it's the hardest section to do well and I think yours works.
@JeroenZuiderwijk
Sounds cool to me! I like your use of saturation. On the chorus, it's interesting how it becomes more airy a texture with a prominent synth. I like the way it is, but just careful that it doesn't sound like a step down when it hits the chorus. Middle section works well. Last section also fine.
Cheers all