Mix Challenge

Cameron wrote: ↑

Wed May 27, 2020 20:21 CEST

I wish I could sit down with each of you to talk about the session and get your thoughts about the tracks. As you know from reading the introduction post, this is my first full scale music endeavor of my own material.

Cameron,

Thank you for sharing your tracks with us for this contest!

Now that I can speak candidly about your song I would like to offer some of my thoughts as feedback to you based on my first impression of your material.

First of all, I like the instrumentation, arrangement and chorus vocals. Minor pitch and timing adjustments are no big deal and something I do as prep for nearly every mix.

Where the song kind of "falls down" for me are the verses. I honestly had a hard time tuning the vocals because it wasn't clear to me what the melody was supposed to be. The second halves of both verses are stronger than the first halves and what I ultimately used as a guide for determining the key. If you have trouble singing the melody in any part of a song play the intended notes on a piano, record it and use that as a guide track while singing. You can then delete or mute that piano track afterwards.

The lyrics in the verses also hit me a bit odd. Your chorus line "you'll find another one" is great - it's somewhat vague which is a GOOD thing because it keeps the listener interested to find out what the song is about. However, the verse then goes into "it's a funny feeling" which, I feel, are too soft of words to describe a failed relationship. It needs to be more painful - perhaps "it's a hallow feeling", "it's a hurting feeling", etc. Simple word changes like that can have a huge affect on the feel of the song.

I've been doing this a long time and hope some of this feedback helps - but it is just my opinion - take it at will. Best wishes!

Jeff Rippe
Raising Jake Studios
www.raisingjakestudios.com

Nonlinear wrote: ↑

Thu May 28, 2020 20:59 CEST

Cameron wrote: ↑

Wed May 27, 2020 20:21 CEST

I wish I could sit down with each of you to talk about the session and get your thoughts about the tracks. As you know from reading the introduction post, this is my first full scale music endeavor of my own material.

Cameron,

Thank you for sharing your tracks with us for this contest!

Now that I can speak candidly about your song I would like to offer some of my thoughts as feedback to you based on my first impression of your material.

This is good constructive feedback Jeff, which can seem so hard to come by. It makes me want to submit one of my songs for a mix challenge!

Cheers!
-John

Hello everyone,i didn't find the tracks download for round 2.Anyone can help me ?
Thanks

I've already answered this via mail, but for everyone else that might be as puzzled:
There a no files/new files to download.

Please check in with the feedback posted here:
https://mix-challenge.com/forum/viewtop ... 7841#p7841

Then use that feedback and edit/overhaul your mix based upon that. Once you're done with your edit, triple checked that everything is alright, submit your mix for Mix Round 2. Also see the official Rules and Guidelines

I hope this helps.

Hello! first time to pass to round 2, so very excited!

i put up the bass, clean the nasal vocal, control de tamborine and shakers, and work a little o the snare. i clean up the keys a little too

here is my mix


https://drive.google.com/file/d/1I9KNi9 ... sp=sharing

Hello!
Cameron, thank you for your feedback.
Worked a little on rhodes and sax.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-V58Zk ... sp=sharing

Hi Cameron,

Thank for the feedback.

This is my entry for round 2, deleting the countdown and lead voice noise, rework the fade out and add more sub to the bass.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/i4ph75p5n0ati ... 2.wav?dl=0

Musicals greetings to all and thanks to Cameron and the mix challenge team for the job.

Manu

Hey Cameron,

thanks for the feedback. I worked on the things you mentioned:

- GTR solo and SAX are louder in the mix now

- Vocals sound more open and less honky, verse and chorus sound more equal

Here is the link:

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

Hi Cameron,

I hope I went the right way with the BGV's on this one. I think they're sitting better now.
Same goes with the LV tuning...

Here's the link to my revision:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fzEgJh ... sp=sharing

Hello Everyone,thanks Cameron for the feedback.Hope this mix will be better than the first.
thanks.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ekttwfiavw4h9 ... 2.wav?dl=0