MIX CHALLENGE - MC34 July 2017 - Winners announced

[donkey tugger]

..and these are the 8 who are (un?)lucky enough to get to have a second bite at the cherry;

Herb Felho
Jim Kennedy
Photonic
Sean Carango
Mork
Erictracks
Arthur Labus
Slick3gz

And finally for now (I'm treating myself to a curry shortly!) Can I just thank everyone again for participating. As I've said earlier, it's not an easy song to mix; it's quite easy to lose perspective when faced with so much going on. Every mix showed that thought had been put in, and everyone's come to a slightly different outcome, which is great. The one I've selected are those I personally like the best.

[SRMix]

I would like to mix again this song from zero if possible.
Out of the contest of course.

[Slick3gz]

Donkey Tugger,

Thank you for the opportunity to mix your track. Thank you as well for the invaluable feedback. I look forward to adjusting the mix in the 2nd round. Good luck to everyone that advanced.

[Mr_Drew]

Thanks for the feedback! G'd luck to everybody in the 2nd round!

[Studio Saturn]

Good luck every one for second round and thanks for the feedback sir! FYI I haven't work on vocal manually yet and I understand you are absolutely right. I haven't even include the harmony Effect yet which they could give a different space potentially. Thanks again for the feedback.

[Mister Fox]

Thank you for handling the evaluation, DT.

Let us kick off Mix Round 2, which will end on Sunday, 30-JUL-2017 11:59pm GMT+1/CEST (check Berlin / DE on the forum world clock)



The following 8 participants go into Round 2 (alphabetical order)

Arthur Labus
Erictracks
Herb Felho
Jim Kennedy
Mork
Photonic
Sean Carango
Slick3gz


A thank you to everyone, and good luck for Round 2

I would like to mix again this song from zero if possible.
Out of the contest of course.

If you want to do this for training purposes, please go ahead. And maybe the client is a good sportsman and will give feedback to you as well.

[Photonic]

Hello Donkey Tugger,

Thank you very much for chossing me for the second round!
And thanx for the detailed feedback. I am happy, that I could get the mix right in some aspects. I hope I corrected the rest according your comments.

Celeste: I made the delays completely new and tried to figure out from your rendered FX track, what kind of delay pattern you used. I think I come close. But not sure, if it is realy correct this way!
Drums: I increased the level of compression and add some satturation with the ThrillseekerXTC 1.0.1 by variety of sound.
Bass: also some satturation added.
Vocals: I added a 1/8th note of pre delay before the reverb sets in and reduced the amount of reverb. It is much more in the face now.
Final EQ: I used the tilt EQ of the MQ57 in the master to make the sound warmer and less trebly.

MP3: https://www.dropbox.com/s/kark46r6mf2rp ... 2.mp3?dl=0
WAV: https://www.dropbox.com/s/xo14ltjqjbwi4 ... 2.wav?dl=0

Good luck to all others in round 2

[SRMix]

Thank You Mister Fox.

@Donkey Tugger Hello, can you drop me a few lines? for training? It would be great.
Here is my second attempt out of the contest: http://picosong.com/v9aV/

GL to all others!

[Mister Fox]

A friendly reminder:
48 hours left to submit your edit for Mix Round 2

[Arthur Labus]

Thanks Donkey for the second run.

Here's my Rond 2 mix.
Implement the feedback:
- changed the vocal approach
- twaeked bass lines
- even a bit more high-pass on distorted solo
- add parallel compression on drums (Distressor)

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BzToI ... XJtR3V6aEk
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BzToI ... nhKMmluUmc

Good success everybody !