Congrats to Henrik and to all of those who made it to the top 3!
And again thank you Gary for the music, it was a real pleasure working on it, I feel like I didn´t do enough on this second round so I´ll be looking forward for your feedback and hopefully learn how to improve on it!
First and foremost, congratulations to the winners!
The Winners Podium is
1) Henrik Hjortnaes
2) MOA22
3) ThePresent
We perform with the usual - please select one license out of the pool (in order of the winners podium) and mention it in this thread, then (important) get in touch with me via PM with your full name, mail address and your plugin selection.
I'll update the "winners podium" thread shortly.
Thanks again for your participation. You can leave the thread alive if you want to exchange tips/tricks, edits, etc.
Thanks Gary for providing the beautiful song and to mr Fox for being the driving force behind this competition.
Congratulations to Henrik Hjortnaes and MOA22, I feel honored to be in top 3 with you guys.
For a prize, I would like to have the Acon Digital Restoriation Suite, too.
But if that’s not possible, I would like to have Tone2 Ultraspace.
Thanks GGermaine for considering my song for round 2, though I'm a bit sad I couldn't be here for it. It was a pleasure to work with these tracks, which were not lackluster at all for me.
I'm looking forward to reading your thoughts on my mix. Congrats to the winners, see you in the next one!
Changes:
I made the pads louder and changed their automation completely, to add more atmosphere.
I changed the character of the pads to better fit the now increased level.
I added more spaciousness to the lead guitar by increasing the existing 4 sends I have going.
I changed the compressor on the lead vocal from Slate FG-Stress to EPI Arouser and gained a more "lively" midrange by doing so.
I added a little harmonic grit to the bass guitar to help it on small speakers.
I toned down the high treble on the distorted guitars, just a hair, to have them behave better when listening on headphones. Added a bit of midrange to them also.
I put the new Fuse tube limiter 864U on the mix bus, with zero gain reduction, to hear what it does (box tone), and I liked it and kept it. It seemed to clean up the low end, strengthen the center image and made the mix slightly clearer.
I'm sorry for not being able to reply sooner, though u kindly offered to share the project (but I don't have pro tools). amazing job. really, voodoo. congrats.