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plz note, Spotify, Apple, and some others have proceeded to their own versions of hires formats, and compression technologies.Frequency Painter wrote: ↑Sat Aug 24, 2019 09:56 CEST(taking into account that all commercial music eventually ends up at 44.1 anyway).
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) and less exaggerated. I am mocking this constantly as the "Reinheitsgebot". So I can't expect a win.no i did not. but if that idea, whatever it was, has been implemented well, i DID hear it in the mix.White Punk OD wrote: ↑Sat Aug 24, 2019 19:19 CESTDirk, it is refreshing to see you not interested in the technical notes, and I fully agree now.
But did you read the "marketing" comments?
Like, one mix wants to be more cineastic, the other wants to sell to pop audience, etc...
no i did not. but if that idea, whatever it was, has been implemented well, i DID hear it in the mix.White Punk OD wrote: ↑Sat Aug 24, 2019 19:19 CESTDirk, it is refreshing to see you not interested in the technical notes, and I fully agree now.
But did you read the "marketing" comments?
Like, one mix wants to be more cineastic, the other wants to sell to pop audience, etc...
Tx man, i missed a couple of pages on this thread sorry.White Punk OD wrote: ↑Sat Aug 24, 2019 19:19 CEST(Julien, heads up, you are on my top 5 also. This round is going very fast with all those little hickups
Yeah, the industry hates glitches by technicians, one is probably out unless there is a long established relationship.
But OTOH, on the business side things may run in utterly chaotic ways, triggered by the hot fad of the day, and a high release count of the week, and a political scandal of the artist (especially toxic nowadays wahahaha), what have you, so its bad but those who pay have the say.
Back to learning and commenting,
I beg everyone to consider _art_.
Because it begins there, and borders between art and tech are crumbling, when the internet drives so much revenue these days, and income is made from the bedroom. E.g. Charlie Puth started on his own, with some private gear and massive talent and fast-growing skill.
So on one side, the song client of the contest has his own purpose and taste, which is the target for a win, but still reflects only a small fraction of the market, who ever he is. To me, Dirk is a very ideal client. This is my opinion from his selection. These mixes are very different, but all have personality, and are neither too thin, nor too bloated with bass, treble, effects, loudness etc..
But I still like a couple of other mixes too, that make a different point, perhaps for different markets.
Can we perhaps also introduce different viewpoints, from where respectively each is coming themselves?
Anyone who has time, please chit-chat on the topics.
I think the organ is interesting. In some mixes, it came a bit loud, when there was additional effect.
I didn't change the organ sound, just made it a bit more crunchy. But some mixes added another, strong "Leslie" effect, and I think that sounds good, but changes the style a bit into vintage.
How should the guitar solo sound? Should the guitar player come in with his notorious BBD delay pedal? Or should he have a more organic jazzy sound?
In a way, I tried to make the sound more "american", while I know that many German productions sound more clean, "bourgeois" (
But I am putting the question, because I see the purpose for the contestants as being a global market.
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Dirk, it is refreshing to see you not interested in the technical notes, and I fully agree now.
But did you read the "marketing" comments?
Like, one mix wants to be more cineastic, the other wants to sell to pop audience, etc...
I absolutely second that!White Punk OD wrote: ↑Sat Aug 24, 2019 19:19 CESTCan we perhaps also introduce different viewpoints, from where respectively each is coming themselves?
Anyone who has time, please chit-chat on the topics.
). If I am (or you are) interested in something specific, it is always possible to ask either in the thread or via PM. I tried both - it works! Same for bit depth, sample rate, file type etc, it doesn‘t matter. Sure, you better should be able to output the file like it was asked for, but in the end the better mix will always shine - even as the shabbiest mp3. Because the groove is there, the main elements are in focus, the artistic choices where tasteful, etc. And that is what I want to read about and what is really valuable information. Why is it fat, thin, wide, deep, flat, bright, dark, crunchy, grungy, punchy and so on. So hopefully in the upcoming challenges that still counts as description, not only pure technical stats, otherwise I‘m going to get disqualified a lot 
I mean sure, I may have a glance which plugins are used, but who really „reads“ these lists? I think it’s just not worth the effort of writing it down as it’s very time consuming.