MIX CHALLENGE - MC066 June 2020 - Winners announced

[cpsmusic]

Hi Everyone,

Thanks to John for the song.

Here's the link to my mix:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1p7uaQN ... sp=sharing

Song - The Reason

DAW - Studio One Pro

Kick - Pink 4 PEQ, Lindell 354E, TB Equalizer 4, Flux Pure Limiter
Snare - VPRE-73, Lindell TE-100, Softube Tape, T-Racks Classic Clipper, KH-COMP1, TB Equalizer 4
Snare Reverb - Eventide SP2016, Binaural Pan
HiHat - TB Equalizer 3, KH-COMP1, TB Equalizer 4
Toms - TB Equalizer 3, TB Equalizer 3, KH-COMP1
OHs - TB Equalizer 3, TB Sibalance, SPL Vitalizer
Cymbals - KH-COMP1, TB Sibalance
Far Room
Near Room - VLA-FET
Tambourine - TB Equalizer 3, KH-COMP1, TB Sibalance, Dual Pan
Drum Space - Repeater, Valhalla Room, Burnley 73, Black 76, Dual Pan
Drum Parallel - Waves SSL Bus Compressor, SPL Twin Tube
Drum Bus - Lindell TE-100, Lindell 354E, Burnley 73, Softube Tape

Bass - VPRE-73, Acme Opticom
Bass High - R-Bass Mono
Bass Sub - Submarine
Bass Grit - Vertigo VSM-3
Bass Bus - Burnley 73, Flux Pure Limiter, KH-COMP1

Rhythm Guitar - Split to a L/R bus
Rhythm Guitar L - Binaural Pan
Rhythm Guitar R - Binaural Pan
Rhythm Guitar Bus - MSED, F59, Pecheneg Tremolo, Polyverse Wider, H-Delay

Lead Guitar Dry - VPRE-73
Lead Guitar FX
Lead Guitar Reverb
Guitar Reverb - Little Plate, Binaural Pan
Lead Guitar Bus - TB Equalizer 4, MAutoVolume

Piano - VPRE-73, H-Delay (x2), Fazortan2, TB Equalizer 3
Electric Piano - VPRE-73, H-Delay, Fazortan2
Piano Bus - Dual Pan, Elysia Niveau,

Synth Strings 1
Synth Strings 2
Synth Strings Bus - Wider, Pecheneg Tremolo, PanCake 2, Little Clipper

Lead Vocal - MAutoVolume, ERA 4 Voice Leveller, TB_Sibalance, Waves Tune Real-Time, VPRE-73, SDRR2, KH-COMP1, bx_console SSL E, Red 2 EQ, Drawmer S73
Vocal Double 1, Vocal Double 2 - MAutoVolume, ERA 4 Voice Leveller, Waves Tune Real-Time, VPRE-73, KH-COMP1, Drawmer S73, TB_Sibalance
Vocal Harmonized - Not Used

Vocal Widen - Repeater 2
Vocal Early Reflections - Dragonfly Early Reflections, Dual Pan
Backing Vocal Ping Pong - H-Delay
Vocal Echo - Bucket-500, Wider
Vocal Reverb Short - Transatlantic Plate, MSED
Vocal Reverb Long - TB Equalizer 3, Blackhole
Delay Throws - H-delay, Overtone RVB500, Dual Pan

Vocal Bus - DSM V3, Softube Tape, MAutoVolume

Pre-Mixbus - Arturia REV-Plate140 (a small amount across the whole mix)

Mixbus - SPL Iron, Drawmer S73, Vertigo VSM-3, Lindell TE-100, Balancer, SlickEQ GE

Meters - MTM Reference, Youlean Loudness Meter, SPAN

-15.7 LUFS (Integrated), -2.8dB TP

Good luck to everyone!

Cheers!

[bluesation]

Hello,

after 2 challenges of songs I did not like, a big song for this challenge.

First of all, the Keys got some chorus and flange fx, cause of the 80ies vibe. The main vox got some spare tuning, only longer notes to hold them in tune. The solo guitar got only some EQ and balanced with FX track. The rhy guitar has got to tamed a bit. I took a lot of lows off and a compressor.
The drum group has its own reverb tracks, a plate and a room reverb. All instruments got to the same hall and room reverbs. Vox have a plate and a two delays (1/8, 1/4). The snare was treated with a sll native console, which has a great gate/expander section. The expander helped me, to get some snare tail out of the recording. No samples oder buzz tools were used.

All in all, normale processing with EQ and compressor were needed. Most done via ssl native console and NI Supercharger. The master bus got some Red 3 for cuting 2db for gluing and a Barricade 4 as Brickwall only, but it would not have been necessary.

Here is may result: https://www.dropbox.com/s/lo5ypfu98ggfi ... n.wav?dl=0

[beyondthemind]

Here is my contribution:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Qksc_N ... sp=sharing

It ended up sounding nothing like the original track. My goal was so get an 80-90's sound with a modern touch.

I kept it quite simple. Comp and EQ on the drums, and a drumbus with bus compression. A bif but short reverb on most of the drums. The bass got some heavy compression, some distortion en EQ. Main vocal some reverb and delay, but the other some extra FXs like vocal doubler, flanger. As seen in the tracks-picture, i decided to use only parts of the vox 3 and 4.

Pictures:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XL2iqb ... sp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/11mMVQc ... sp=sharing

[gambler]

Hi,

here is my mix:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/14Uud6r ... sp=sharing

Drums, guitars, keys: filtering out DC frequencies, EQ (boxiness), compression (-3 dB)
Vocals: EQ (low mids cleanup), compression (-3 dB)
Tape saturation on master bus.

Good luck to all.

Cheers!

[Zsolt]

Hello!

Here is my mix: https://www.dropbox.com/s/3asenlw6kz48r ... t.wav?dl=0

Drums:
Kick: SSL E-channel
Snare: API 550A,SPL Transient D.
Hi Hat: SSL eq
Toms: Puigtec EqP1A
OH: SSL E-channel
Room: SSL E-channel
Bass: Kramer HLS Eq
CLA-76 compressor
Guitar: SSL E-channel
Main GTR: Waves Q4 eq
Strings: SSL E-channel
Key Sound: Maag eq4
Piano: SSL E-channel
Vox: SSL E-channel
CLA-76 compressor
Vox buss: CLA vocal plugin


Cheers,
Zsolt.

[gambler]

Hi,
your file can not be downloaded. You must share it to everyone.

gambler

[Icetone]

Hey,
mix audio .wav
mix background image .jpg
I appreciate you giving me your time.

[john]

Hello everyone,

I enjoyed mixing this, thanks to John Kutkowski for the opportunity!

Mixed in Reaper
Drums:
- Parallel compression on the drum buss
- Transient Designer on the Kick and Snare
- Saturation on Kick and Snare
Bass - EQ and compression from Scheps Omni Channel, and Trackspacer to duck the kick
Vocals - Nothing unusual, EQ, compression, a mix of plate and hall verbs, and some stereo slapback
Guitar - I split the stereo rhythm track into two mono tracks to process them differently. Different EQ curves on each, and SketchCassette on one side
Pad/Strings - Converted to mono and hard-panned for width
Piano - EQ and Compression
Mix Bus - light compression and bx_refinement to reduce the harshness a little bit (about 1 dB)

Dropbox Links:
- Mixdown: MC066_Mystic_Io_TheReason_john.wav
- Screen Shot (Mixer): ReaperScreenCap_TheReason_Mixer.jpg
- Screen Shot (Track Control Panel): ReaperScreenCap_TheReason_TCP.jpg

[Matik]

Hi everyone,

Here is my mix: https://www.dropbox.com/s/vbk6tmphe7qql ... k.wav?dl=0

This time I decide to use only basic stuff like comp, eq, rev, sat + use some other eq's than Reaper ReaEq, which I use all the time.

On Kick Eq for some high end and a bit of low end + comp (Molot) + Saturation Knob.
I made two copies of snare, one for gated reverb other for low mid punch, which I compress a lot. Some eq and compression for glue on bus.
Rest of drum is only eq and comp + some reverb on hh, room and tamb.
For drum bus I used tape emulation to compress them a little.

Piano gets some reverb and delay and after that comp for more suistain.
Eq for darker strings and without so much mids.

Guitars have a lot more processing, too long to describing, so I will throw biggest tip helped me when I was working on them. Instead of using eq to get rid of muddy freq, I compressed mids in multibandcomp. That helped me to not take to much power from them.

For Vocals I used eq, small comp and plate reverb. ADT on VOX3 and same processing with different setup of reverb.

GL&HF

[EchoOread]

@EchoOread, we need you to set file access for your mix to _public_.
(User interface to GDrive has changed)

What happened on your end? I clicked on the my link and it was fine. Btw, how do you set the file to "public"? I copied the sharable link. Thanks.