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.
