MIX CHALLENGE - MC059 October 2019 - Winners announced

[GB Real]

Hello all,

Here is my mix

wav: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QsUESs ... sp=sharing
mp3: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1g-7rPF ... sp=sharing
Screen capture: https://drive.google.com/file/d/12I8F_2 ... sp=sharing

[FUS]

Hi guys

Here is my mix

[mp3] https://www.dropbox.com/s/2pqldmafe0rt6 ... S.mp3?dl=0
[wav] https://www.dropbox.com/s/csfg28no701gc ... S.wav?dl=0

Screen:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/3jlbc94yxv78r ... 1.png?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/4xpquvnjk7fkc ... 2.png?dl=0

I used:
Personus Studio One 4 and native EQ, Compressor, PanMan
SSL Brainworx SSL4000 on every channel
Brainworx OptoPedal, Elysia Karacter
Kush Audio Novatron, AR-1, Hammer, REDDI
1176, 760, Distressor, 550 & Neve EQ from Slate Digital Virtual Mix Rack
Eiosis E2Deesser
Cakewalk CA-2a
LiquidSonic Lustrous
Linn6 Echo (hardware)
Thermionic Culture Vulture (hardware)
Midas Venice (EQ+summing)
Acustica Audio Magenta - VariMu compressor (Manley emualtion)
mvMeter

Thanks for listening. Please feedback if you have time.

[artdreamer272]

sorry, I couldn't figure out how we were supposed to submit our entry so here's the link to mine,
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... sp=sharing

[loupi]

Hey, thanks for this opportunity. Here's my version:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/xrcm3l5jdjoye ... v.wav?dl=0

Tried to go for something quite defined so did quite some lowcuts where possible to create space for all the details of the production and to be able to create some depth in the mix. I wanted a solid drum-bass foundation, treated the second bass (the "answering" one) more like a baritone-guitar to differentiate from other basstracks and to accentuate it's surf/western-feel. I chose to emphasize the female voice and have the male vocal in support, and tried to get intimate upclose vocals which i thought went well with the quite cool, understated performance.
Plugins used: Along with my usual goto plugins i tried out some airwindows plugins and some of them stayed on.
Automation: intro builds up to 1'15" where in the reverbtail things go full wide. Volume builds up in last instrumental part to take the song to the end, and other small interventions...
Hope you enjoy! (feedback very welcome and returned)

[_spafles_]

Hello everyone,

Here is my mix.

mp3: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1XtIJH ... pFLCo0jEPp
wav: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1dRQTN ... tgfJBHvcCt

So i've EQ'd almost every track. Compressed the drums (single track and a parallel bus compressor).
On the bass intro i added a delay.
The vocals EQ, compressor and reverb and panning.
The guitars just EQ and panning.
The bass solo has a little flanger.
A ping pong delay on the shaker.
Delay on the perc loop track.
Doubled the steelpan.

Most of the mixing time went into EQing and volume adjustments.

Thanks to the band for providing these tracks! Had a lot of fun mixing them.

[Arthur Labus]

Hello everybody !

Great tune !
My focus was on clean, good separated sound, so i did some high passes on low heavy tracks and groups.
Recognized bass guitar as the instrument which drives the song and exagreggated some parts. Obviously the solo parts and some nice riffs.
Added space and movement to lead guitars and some "Edge'ish" delay to the rhythm guitars as well.
Panned cymbal tracks differently in parts as i recognized that only one cymbal was used during drums programming.

Overall specs:
Tracks set to 0 VU. Izotope Neutrino and Waves NLS on every instrument bus.

DRUMS:
Variety Of Sound Thrillseeker VBL and Toneboosters Sibilance De-Esser on drum bus

All instruments are unprocessed except:
Overhead and Room group: Waves CLA Drums
Cymbal: Toneboosters Sibilance De-Esser
Shaker: Temper (distortion) and Devicer (Little Radio setup)

BASS
Overloud GEM EQ550 for extra air
Waves Scheps 73 clean bass setup
GMonoBass (mono under 150 Hz)

Bass: Vandal, BOD (overdrive)
Bass Solo Br: Bass Professor, Classic Chorus, Variety of Sound Nasty DLA
Synth Bass Br and Bass Synth 2: ReaEQ (highpass 150Hz)
Pulse Synth Bass: Waves CLA Bass, ReaEQ (highpass 150Hz)

VOCAL
Toneboosters Sibilance De-Esser
Waves CLA Vocals for main and backing vocals.
u-he Protoverb in parts as extra insert (reverb)
Stereo widener Stereo Touch and Ozone Imager on reverse Reverb and doubling vocals.

RHYTHM GUITARS
Waves SuperTap delay

LEAD GUITARS
Black Rooster Audio VHL-3C high pass filter 80Hz

GTR Intro: FA3 and Waves Brauer Motion
GTR EBow: FrontDAW
GTR Ch: Guitar Gadgets (Delay Attack, Niagara Falls), ReaEQ (highpass 150Hz)
GTR v3: ReaEQ (highpass 150Hz)
GTR v3 FX: ReaEQ (highpass 150Hz), Soundtoys PanMan
GTR C: Stereo Touch, Black Rooster Audio Cypress amp sim

KEYS
ReaEQ (highpass 150Hz)
Audio Thing Valves (for that grit)

Steelpan: Soundtoys PanMan
Moog: Ozone Imager

PIANO
ReaEQ (highpass 150Hz)
bx_Console-N
Soundtoys little radiator on Electric Piano

STRINGS
ReaEQ (highpass 150Hz)
Nomad Bus Driver
Noveltech Character
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Master Bus:
NLS Bus as analog summer, Waves TG1234 subtle eq, Toneboosters ReelBus tape simulation, Toneboosters Sibilance De-Esser, Density MkII compressor (glueing, almost none GR), Prime Studio Charly Limited analog gain, Toneboosters Barricade Limiter (just for sure), Youlean loudness Meter

Round 3 dB headroom and -18 LUFS loudness.

WAV: 48kHz/24bit
WAV: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1aUmgG ... fpClYFdvBr

MP3: 320 kbps
MP3: https://drive.google.com/open?id=10StRE ... ajyS8t77HM


Good succes everybody !

[ArneB]

Hi Folks,

thanks to GreenDog for this interesting challenge! Never did that genre before, so I really mixed 3 weeks long on this challenge...

My submission: WAV

Mixed ITB in ProTools.
PlugIns are: FabFilter Q3 and Pro-R, Decapitator, Flux BitterSweet; ProTools StockPlugins: EQ, BF-86, DeEsser, Delay.
EQd almost every track, except the synths.

Drums:
Used a lot of BitterSweet on the drums to shape the transients. Decapitor on Kicks, some of the Snares and the Ride.

Bass:
EQ, Comp, Decapitator

Git:
EQ, some with Comp and Decapitator

Keys:
Little delay on the Piano1. Comp on Piano2.

Vox:
Used Melodyne to make BgVox match the lead. DeEsser, Comp and Decapitator on all of them.
Reverb and delay on the lead. Used heavy DeEsser on the delay.

SoundScap: Stereo widener.

Screenshots can be delivered on demand.

Good luck to everybody!

Cheers,
Arne

[oakdave]

Hi, here is my mix to download, sincerely Oak Dave:D

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lO-JWk ... sp=sharing

[Jerze]

Well, just not enough time it is what it it is and I just had to get something on the plate

Wavhttps://www.dropbox.com/s/44wb5iox9b4dwol/MC59_ ... e.mp3?dl=0

MP3https://www.dropbox.com/s/44wb5iox9b4dwol/MC59_ ... e.mp3?dl=0


Notes on the way


Well I just tried to make things jump out of the speakers. I used Reaeq a lot
I used devil loc a little here and there not much on the drums. Not a lot of compressors used
Used some scheps omni on a few tracks. I didn’t have a lot of time so it turned into a speed mix.
If you have any thoughts or questions let me know.Jerze

[Samonov]

Hello. I just found this resource, I also wanted to mix it. I hope I didn’t confuse anything and passed it on time
My stuff:
Acon equalize almost on every track;
TRacks black76, saturatorX, EQP-1A;
Waves Fairchild 670;
Verberate(Acon Digital);
Acustica audio sand3, navy2, ochre;
Waves Abbey Road Plates;
Reaper js plugins;
Mp3: https://www.dropbox.com/s/7vdv90hkxzfeu ... 9.mp3?dl=0
Wav: https://www.dropbox.com/s/9bybekdxpsief ... 9.wav?dl=0