2025-APR-01 Info: We've got two games this month! MC103 with a (German) Pop/Rock production, and SWC092 with a new picture theme.

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by Piranha
Fri Feb 21, 2025 23:28 CET
Forum: Mix Challenge
Topic: MIX CHALLENGE - MC102 February 2025 - Winners announced
Replies: 286
Views: 603210

Re: MIX CHALLENGE - MC102 February 2025 - Submissions until 21-FEB-2025 23:59 UTC+1/CET

My entry Let's start with the basics: I mixed the song with Reaper. Most of the tracks have a instance of MAutoDynamicEq. The project is divided into a busses: drums, bass, guitars, keys vocals and effect. All busses go inside the master buss. On the master bus there are an Acustica Celestial for s...
by Piranha
Mon Oct 21, 2024 23:58 CEST
Forum: Mix Challenge
Topic: MIX CHALLENGE - MC100 October 2024 - Winners announced
Replies: 271
Views: 175299

Re: MIX CHALLENGE - MC100 October 2024 - Submissions until 21-OCT-2024 23:59 UTC+2/CEST

In my mixing process, I predominantly used MAutoDynamicEQ for equalizing all tracks. On some tracks, I also employed the Lindell 50 Channel to add color, equalize, and compress. For the drums, I applied Unfiltered Audio Zip on the snare, Gem Comp LA on the toms, and MTurbocompressor in Distressor mo...
by Piranha
Fri Jun 21, 2024 16:57 CEST
Forum: Mix Challenge
Topic: MIX CHALLENGE - MC098 June 2024 - Winners announced
Replies: 283
Views: 173394

Re: MIX CHALLENGE - MC098 June 2024 - Submissions until 21-JUN-2024 23:59 UTC+2/CEST

Having the track a organic music feel, my main focus was to make all the tracks sound coherent sounding, especially to make the various percussive samples sound like real drums. To do this I dosed compression, eq, transient shapers and room verbs to give cohesion to everything. A virtual amp, distor...
by Piranha
Sun Apr 21, 2024 23:24 CEST
Forum: Mix Challenge
Topic: MIX CHALLENGE - MC097 April 2024 - Winners announced
Replies: 265
Views: 150991

Re: MIX CHALLENGE - MC097 April 2024 - Submissions until 21-APR-2024 23:59 UTC+2/CEST

The aim of the mix was to make every instrument clear to find in the mix and to give a vintage sound as expected for the genre. To do this I mostly used analog emulations and a top down and bass heavy mixing approach. DRUMS: On the drum bus I used an API 2500 compressor emulation from Lindell and a ...
by Piranha
Sat Nov 04, 2023 16:37 CET
Forum: Mix Challenge
Topic: MIX CHALLENGE - MC094 October 2023 - Winners announced
Replies: 234
Views: 147914

Re: MIX CHALLENGE - MC094 October 2023 - Mix Round 2 until until 04-NOV-2023 23:59 UTC+1/CET

Hi, for this review I implemented all of Benji suggestions, in particular: Enhanced Snare transient attack whilst making it take less space in the mix. Kick and cymbals presence increased. More hi-end to guitars after selecting the more musical boost (Acustica Eminence 7k node). Bass tone slightly r...
by Piranha
Sat Oct 21, 2023 23:29 CEST
Forum: Mix Challenge
Topic: MIX CHALLENGE - MC094 October 2023 - Winners announced
Replies: 234
Views: 147914

Re: MIX CHALLENGE - MC094 October 2023 - Submissions extended until 24-OCT-2023 23:59 UTC+2/CEST

All eq tasks are done with the Lindell 20 channel strip for broad strokes (after compression) and MDynamicEq, mostly before compression DRUMS Kick: the usual low-mids cleaning, a bit of compression with the Neve emulation in the Melda MTurbCompressor Snare: high-passing the snare bottom to leave the...
by Piranha
Mon Aug 21, 2023 23:56 CEST
Forum: Mix Challenge
Topic: MIX CHALLENGE - MC093 August 2023 - Winners announced
Replies: 261
Views: 135443

Re: MIX CHALLENGE - MC093 August 2023 - Submissions extended until 24-AUG-2023 23:59 UTC+2/CEST

I didn't expect to find a prog-rock piece here and here we are. Fun but challenging job. DRUMS: kick and snare gating, otherwise Focusrite channel strip on each track used for color and eq, 1176 and dbx-160 emulations used for compression BASS: mostly shaping and compression via LA-2A emulation GUIT...
by Piranha
Wed Jun 21, 2023 23:45 CEST
Forum: Mix Challenge
Topic: MIX CHALLENGE - MC092 June 2023 - Winners announced
Replies: 177
Views: 142177

Re: MIX CHALLENGE - MC092 June 2023 - Submissions until 21-JUN-2023 23:59 UTC+2/CEST

Top-down mix with a old school console style approach with Lindell 50 channel (espanded API 550 emulation) on all channels, supported with MDynamicEq when needed. Compressors used where mostly analog emulations by IK Multimedia and Plugin-Alliance. DRUMS: Fattening the kick and shaping drums mostrly...
by Piranha
Tue May 09, 2023 23:53 CEST
Forum: Mix Challenge
Topic: MIX CHALLENGE - MC091 April 2023 - Winners announced
Replies: 226
Views: 152077

Re: MIX CHALLENGE - MC091 April 2023 - Mix Round 2 until until 09-MAY-2023 23:59 UTC+2/CEST

Basically followed Jeroen suggestions: Added a db of volume to the choruses and added width to the guitars in the choruses Lowered vocal loudness in the bridge Additional balancing/cleaning, a bit more fatness to guitars, definition to keyboard parts and more cleaning to cymbals spill in drums track...
by Piranha
Fri Apr 21, 2023 23:50 CEST
Forum: Mix Challenge
Topic: MIX CHALLENGE - MC091 April 2023 - Winners announced
Replies: 226
Views: 152077

Re: MIX CHALLENGE - MC091 April 2023 - Submissions until 21-04-2023 23:59 UTC+2/CEST

Hi all! This mix effort was focus especially on cleaning the drums from cymbals bleedings and fixing some groowing things in the guitar riffs, otherwhise the sounds where good and the playing likewise. MASTER: Black Box set to bright and saturate the whole track (lowering the density a bit). Then so...