MIX CHALLENGE - MC064 April 2020 - Winners announced

[theenemyofaustria]

Im new to this place but heres my try!

Song:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Z7jMO2 ... sp=sharing

Screenshot:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iur07D ... sp=sharing
I'm not that used to drum n bass bu hope you like it!

[hjchjc]

Not normally my genre, but once I figured it out, this was really fun to mix! Used a lot of Logic's binaural panning ability. One of my goals was giving depth and warmth to an otherwise very digital piece of music. I don’t actually have outboard gear, but I tried to recreate that kind of feeling in the box.

If I win or even advance to the next round, it's because of the Waves API-2500's side-chaining ability.

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

Gradually using less plugins with every mix. Really trying to keep things simple (for me at least) because the amount of automation and multing was already doing my cpu in.

Love the variety of music in these challenges!

PSP ClassicQex, MixPressor, MixBass

Apulsoft Apqualizer

Waves API-2500, F6-RTA, H-delay, SSLComp,

Acustica CoffeePun

Soundtoys Pan Man, Devil-Loc, EchoBoy, Tremolator, Decapitator, FIlterfreak

Logic Stereo Spread, Sample delay, EQ

ToneLib GFX

Music Entropy Spaceship Delay

Soundspot Evade

Auburn Sounds Panagement 2

Fieldler audio stage

Exponential Audio PhoenixVerb

[copyc4t]

Hello all, here's my entry:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/kugiy0uc6d7bm ... t.wav?dl=0

Screenshots:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/fs3kaehrbmben ... 1.png?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/46vveajkn3kdq ... 2.png?dl=0

The mix is done on Ardour, with plugins mostly from the Calf Studio Gear suite, the LSP plugin suite by Vladimir Sadovnikov, plus Dragonfly Reverb by Michael Willis and Rob vd Berg, Fast Lookahead Limiter by Steve Harris, GStereo by Graham Yeadon, Bandpass Filter by MOD Team, GxCabinet by Guitarix Team, Distortion by dRowAudio, DR-14 meter by Robin Gareus, LUFS Meter by Klangfreund.

I mostly followed the provided suggestions, but with track and tonal balance done differently.

As for the track processing:

- Most of the drum tracks just have basic EQ.

- The snare is reinforced by saturation from a tape simulator, an exciter, and a slapback delay.

- The pre snare is widened on the highs to make more room for the snare in the center.

- The breaks have 2 saturation stages; the drum bus has further saturation and heavy limiting for aggression and grit, then an expander and a safety limiter to recover dynamics, a shelf cut on the highs, and a dedicated EQ focused on mids for the second break only.

- The sidechain bus (kick + snare) drives sidechain compression on the 808 bass and the apollo pad, but only after the first break.

- The 808 bass has EQ, bass enhancing, saturation, and sidechain compression.

- The ambience tracks and modular FXs have big wet reverbs.

- The noise chant has big wet reverb and transient shaping for more swelling.

- The apollo pad has EQ, bandpass filter, cabinet simulation, saturation, distortion, and sidechain compression.


Overall, the tracks have EQ high-pass where and when needed and some gain staging.

Finally, the sum bus has metering only.

The peaks are at -1.1dB, the integrated LUFS is -16, the dynamic range stays around 12.

[Mister Fox]

A friendly reminder:
We're in the final 24 hours to submit your edit

[cutlet90]

Sup guys

here's my mix:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1vCtBt ... sXR3km806H
R2:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=19DXlB ... nlGLbtvwEt

screenshots:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1_4njK ... YvuhOAamfR


i liked the song very much btw

[fuelrecordsjungle]

hi,
here's my mix:

WAV
https://www.dropbox.com/s/s3a93x40qez4o ... e.wav?dl=0

Screen Shots
https://www.dropbox.com/s/58dt16dt62v35 ... M.png?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/vyzswp1g54bu8 ... M.png?dl=0

lots of fabfilter stuffs on individual track,
UAD ATR-102 ---> Diamond color EQ ---> StandardClip for mix bus,
just HF limiter section on TDR Limiter 6 GE and 0,5~1db gain reduction on Oxford limiter when bouncing the file


love the song, remember me the moment when camping

[InCapitals]

Here I come!

I used to listen to D&B (lounge and liquid) some years ago.

My aim was to have a tight feeling all over the track and keeping a quite neutral balance to keep polyvalence for the potential mastering.

Mains plugins : IK Multimedia tr5 suite

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1KYtsg ... 8lWqIRkFAm

Loved mixing that song!

[Clueless]

Hello All,

Interesting challenge, I’ve used only a few plugins
Hopefully everything is fine.
https://mega.nz/file/eoEjlawK


Will update with plugsoon.

[Optoslam]

Hi guys and girls. My submission is focused on creating a atmosphere with all the nature sounds, pads and drums so the song takes you to another place.

The mix was done mainly using three types of effects - eq (pro-q, clariphonic, rule tec), saturation (kush omegas, deviloc, radiator, decapitator, saturation knob) and stereo imaging (ozone imager, bx_control v2). Surprisingly little compression went into the mix - a little limiting on bass, tiny bit compression on hand drums to get some extra attack and mix bus compressor. The biggest challenge for me was getting the tambourines sounding right so they would be still bright but not resonant. Soothe helped out here big time. Other effects included little foot on kick, maxxbass on bass, transatlantic reverb and echoboy.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1RUxW8 ... 3mvEeGXV7i

[cdj1000]

Sup guys

here's my mix:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1vCtBt ... sXR3km806H
R2:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=19DXlB ... nlGLbtvwEt

screenshots:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1_4njK ... YvuhOAamfR


i liked the song very much btw

The best mix !