Mix Challenge

Beeble wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 27, 2018 16:10 CEST

I feel a bit "mustained" about your argumentation @FixInTheMix.

1- The fact that your mix sounds like clipping and is overcompressed is not a subjective opinion though, you can easily measure it. Well obviously that's the treatment that was intended, hence the reason you're hearing it that way. So any opinion you *may* or *may not* have in regards to what you t...

I'm a big boy and I welcome criticism, as well as honest opinions. Having said that, here's a crazy little tip you might want to bear in mind when commenting in a "songwriting competition",is to maybe...I dunno... comment on err "the songwriting"? i.e arrangement, melody, lyrics...

No one told me this was a mixing competition, interesting. No need to be rude, it´s not a mixing competition but you can´t expect me to not take in consideration the fact that the vocals sound like they are clipping, also according to the rules Technical Objectivity is one of the three points to fo...

technical: the distortion/overdrive on the vocals just ruins it for me it just sounds bad and it´s a damn shame because everything else sound great, like digital clipping, maybe this is a rendering issue, a limiter running too hot maybe? It doesn´t sound pleasing at all, I have no problem with usin...

FixInTheMix wrote: ↑

Sat Mar 24, 2018 16:51 CET

3 people is just too low.

Yeah, and 2 is even lower.

Sounding good Nige. Getting there with something now - some 60s/90s jangle with slight 'borrowing' (cough) from the Byrds and Beatles. Just got to finish the lyrics and do some crooning. Had a lot of fun using the 12 string setting on my fancy arse, new-ish, Line 6 Variax geetar. It's not massively...

Mister Fox wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 13, 2018 14:36 CET

Every entry counts.

Hadn't really planned on putting up an entry this month, but I just finished off a new one called "Summer Soul/Winter Mind" so thought what the hell. Sorry for another rock tune, but that's just what needed to be written at the time :wink: Probably a bit more of a standard arrangement as o...

davemcisaac wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 16, 2018 23:51 CET

FYI - There have been thousands of songs in the past that had plenty of "groove" even though the kick & bass landed on the same beat.

Absolutely, I'm not disputing that.