Mix Challenge

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Hellou there,

I want to share with you this track I've made this last week. Maybe you can share with me some feedback to make it better for my final entry.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/2m6yucfgnkvo3 ... y.wav?dl=0

The idea behind it came to me when I was running in the park. I love nature, so I wanted to create a soundtrack for the plants and trees that live in my park. So it's nor a happy or sad song. The feeling i was hoping to get was a physical and visceral emotion in appreciating the beauty that surround us.

Hope you like it.

Almost first. Here is my quick entry for this round and consider it final since no more time for me to invest in this track. Idea was to evoke the nature awakening mood. Imagine the flower growing in time lapse footage. I wanted support this using simple melody. For ambient stuff I used layering of different instruments. In first part it is xylophone and marimba from AGE - heavily processed. Later it is kind of vocal pad made with Pharlight layered with chimes from AGE. In last part there is main melody line using Efimov bawu together with 8Dio sopranos. Choir was tricky since it does not include monophonic legato only poly legato. It takes some tweaking to make it sound almost good. Yup I know there is more then 2 instruments but I used them more as background ambient melodic pad.

No binaural audio but I tried to make really wide sound stage while making it mono compatible. Mix is quite "airy". Not much happening in low frequencies except few sweeps made with 8Dio 66 basses here and there.


Made using FL Studio 20.6
Instruments used:
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1x 8Dio Acoustic Grand Ensembles 1
2x 8Dio Acoustic Grand Ensembles 2
1x 8Dio 66 Basses
1x 8Dio Studio Sopranos
1x Ilya Efimov Bawu
1x NI Pharlight
1x sfx from free GameAudioGDC Bundle https://sonniss.com
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Used Effects:
8x VSTzOne Arx One
1x Noveltech Vocal Enhancer
4x Pro Audio DSM V3
1x Brainworx bx_refinement
3x Guitar Rig 6
6x Fruity Parametric EQ2
1x Izotope Neutron 3
2x Izotope Neutron 3 Equalizer
1x Izotope Nectar 3
1x NI Raum
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Statistics:
Max momentary loudness -8.2 LUFS
Max short-tem loudness -9.3 LUFS
Integrated loudness -14.0 LUFS
Loudness range 7.9 LU
True peak L -1.35dB
True peak R -1.37dB
DC offset L 0% (-170.3dB)
DC offset R 0% (-168.0dB)

Come on, @TrojakEW, you know about the naming and that the track is supposed to be downloadable.

A Future in Noise wrote: ↑

Sat Mar 13, 2021 15:16 CET

Come on, @TrojakEW, you know about the naming and that the track is supposed to be downloadable.

You are too fast . Download enabled. File is named properly when you download the track.

canese wrote: ↑

Sat Mar 13, 2021 14:02 CET

Hellou there,

I want to share with you this track I've made this last week. Maybe you can share with me some feedback to make it better for my final entry.

The idea behind it came to me when I was running in the park. I love nature, so I wanted to create a soundtrack for the plants and trees that live in my park. So it's nor a happy or sad song. The feeling i was hoping to get was a physical and visceral emotion in appreciating the beauty that surround us.

Hope you like it.

So the mood and the idea is nice. Like that low end that add power to mix. Theme is nice but I think it have bit of sad feel for me. I would like to hear more complex melody with that piano to give the track more character and maybe it is the way to reverse this sad mood a bit.

What I do not like is the 30 second fadein intro. It is really weird kind of like lame simulation of dynamics. This for sure I would change.

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[EDIT] I edited the track slightly and uploaded a new version about 10.30 am GMT Tuesday. It's only the part 1:15 – 1:40 that's edited, but I also changed the mp3 to 320 kbit (instead of 180), cause I saw this is recommended. [/EDIT]

Title: Spring Gettin' Grown Up.

mp3:

48 kHz, 24 bit: https://drive.google.com/file/d/17vn1oN ... sp=sharing

Real instruments: Cort AD810 Guitar, Grand Piano, sampled (Addictive Keys)

Synths: the Surge synth, ZynAddSubFx, Vital

Sampler: Shortcircuit (percussion; various free samples)

Reverb: Reverberate LE (IR-files from Samplicity), Independence Free

Delay: Indenpendence Free

Ooh-choir: Sample Tank Free (the Aah-choir is ZynAddSubFx)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YFUUyk ... sp=sharing
Her is my entry. Titled "2 Day Bloom "
I dreamt I was a flower
Spent two days on a hill
Sun came down in showers
The wind was blowing still
I used four elements . Xpand! for the low end, Acoustic guitar highly processed, a crystal port glass and a used candle jar.
3 aux FX trx- 1:Abbey Roads Chamber>Air Ensemble>ProCmp>Air filter gate >SUM + side bus to FX 3
2: D-verb>ProCmp>Air non linear rvb> SUM + side bus to FX 3
3: Tape Echo> MondoMod>H-Delay> EQ > SUM
Mstr (SUM) Bus JST Clipper> Slate VBC rack>F6-RTA>L1
crystal:( sm 58) F6-RTA>Frequency shifter> Air rvb> L1 > sum +side bus to FX 2
Cndel jar:( Tascam TM 80) EQ > side bus to FX 3 . sampled then reversed, duplicated > sum
Acc GTR:DI> 11Rack (clean) > sum + side bus to FX 1
Xpand! two pulses to drive the trance: song tempo 114 bmp.one at 28.5 bpm And one at 57 bpm , which is a pleasant and relaxing heart rate

VST:
Jup-8 V3
KORG Wavestation
Spitfire Originals Cimbalom
LABS Frozen Strings
D16 LuSH-101
Zebra 2
Analog Lab V
Kontakt (Glacier Keys)

FX:
Bettermaker EQ232D
Fabfilter Pro-Q3
Waves CLA-76
D16 Godfazer
Soundshifter
L1 Limiter
StandardClip
bx_control V2
PHA-979
Wider
Soundtoys PanMan
BOZ PanKnob
dearVR Music
Blackhole
Audiothing OuterSpace
EW Spaces II

bx_digital V3
Ozone9
Gullfoss
bx_townhouse
Youlean Loudness Meter
SPAN

Since we have been going through quite hard and cloudy times lately, I made end-of-winter material for the video rather than the joyful spring chirping.

Title: Melting Point