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MIX CHALLENGE - MC062 February 2020 - Winners announced

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Re: MIX CHALLENGE - MC062 February 2020 - Mix Round 2 until 28-02-2020 11:59pm GMT+1/CET

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A friendly reminder:
We're in the final 24hours to submit your edit for Mix Round 2.
GB Real

Re: MIX CHALLENGE - MC062 February 2020 - Mix Round 2 until 28-02-2020 11:59pm GMT+1/CET

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wav: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Fp0ILY ... sp=sharing
mp3: https://drive.google.com/file/d/11I9z9x ... sp=sharing

Hi Gary,

Great to be chosen for Round 2. Glad you enjoy the mix. I went and pulled back some of the low mids on the Vocalise C Pad and Ethera vocals to reduce their thickness. Thank you, looking forward to your feedback. :tu:
Jerze

Re: MIX CHALLENGE - MC062 February 2020 - Mix Round 2 until 28-02-2020 11:59pm GMT+1/CET

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Hello Gary,
Thanks for the feedback on the mix. I tried to get the middle section to lock in better, but struggled some because of how the section was played with no dynamics so hopefully it’s a little better. Also, I adjusted a few other things along with some more automation Anyway fun style to mix.
Good luck to the other mixers in this second round.

Wav R-2
https://www.dropbox.com/s/0bc0lbb363udz ... 2.wav?dl=0

MP3 R-2
https://www.dropbox.com/s/8x11cjz1gzi7x ... 2.mp3?dl=0

If you have any questions or thoughts let me know!
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Re: MIX CHALLENGE - MC062 February 2020 - Mix Round 2 until 28-02-2020 11:59pm GMT+1/CET

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Hi,

from the round 1 feedback in general one thing stood out to me: Gary wants some friggin sparkle! So here you go: less mud, more sparkle :sing:

WAV: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1SuGbw ... wE-Xgd8stS
MP3: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1uuA3O ... ZcjOG5YFn1

I asked in Avids support forum for the "complete" plugins, but other than advertised, they are not part of the trial :nutter:
So this is still done with the aforementioned stock plugins of Slo/Oh No/Bro Tools.

Cheers
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Re: MIX CHALLENGE - MC062 February 2020 - Mix Round 2 until 28-02-2020 11:59pm GMT+1/CET

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Wizzo
Good atmosphere on start section. I like the focus on triplets bass on 1st melody section,
good thinking there. 2nd section low synths handled well. Really liking the drum parts,
driving along well. Vocal section well balanced but could be thinned out a little to allow
for bigger ending. Very good end, opening hit drum maybe a touch loud but it's an obvious
finale. Really good work
Hello,
What I did is
-Tight the low end more.
-Change the intro bass sound completely it's more now cohesive with the other elements. I hope you like it.
-Thinned out a vocal sound for a bigger ending!

-Loudness: -17.3 LUFS, TP Max -1.9 dBTP (By NUGEN), any comments or feedback are most welcome.

My submission for R2.

MC062_GaryRegnier_Counting On A Hero_Wizzo_R2.wav
MC062_GaryRegnier_Counting On A Hero_Wizzo_R2.mp3

Cheers !
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Re: MIX CHALLENGE - MC062 February 2020 - Mix Round 2 until 28-02-2020 11:59pm GMT+1/CET

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My submission for R2

-1.2db Volume on Bass track
-5db 150hz bell cut on War Drums track
+1.2db boost on Snare track

WAV
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1e-YYLh ... sp=sharing

MP3
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ei1Z0K ... sp=sharing
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Re: MIX CHALLENGE - MC062 February 2020 - Mix Round 2 until 28-02-2020 11:59pm GMT+1/CET

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Post by shoma »

Gary, thanks for chosing me for round 2!

According to your review I changed the things you've mentioned as described here:

Lead Vocal

I dipped a bit around 700Hz and added a tiny low shelve from 400Hz downwards

Low Synths, 2nd part

Low shelving beginning at around 300Hz

I had to add about 1,5 dB gain in the channel faders where I made changes for loudness compensation. Should be good now

Have fun and good luck to all remaining participants!

https://www.dropbox.com/s/og8v1l3p1174c ... 2.wav?dl=0

Edit: Typo in url
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Re: MIX CHALLENGE - MC062 February 2020 - Mix Round 2 in evaluation

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It's the 29th February 2020, 11:00pm - the 2nd Mix Round has officially ended. (I am a bit late, apologies)

Everyone has sent in an edit
We have no submissions after the deadline.

Please check your upload links again, and have an eye on this thread for the final results.



I'm now opening up the room (again) for Q&A's and giving each other feedback (which is highly encouraged)

Please check out all other games on the community. :tu:


See you on the flipside.
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Re: MIX CHALLENGE - MC062 February 2020 - Mix Round 2 in evaluation

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******************* Results & Winners ***********************

Hi All, Needless to say this was an extremely close run competition and I thought the standard was really high all round :hail:

I listened to all 10 entries once through and removed 4 of them for either technical, balance or resonance issues that I wasn't liking too much. The remaining 6 went through again in 5 different sections and marked each one individually on overall sound and feel. This gave me a score out of 100 for each mix and should be noted that the difference between the winner and 6th place was just 9 points! So commiserations to those who didn't get chosen this time around and congrats to our winners who are:

1st place - Mork

2nd place - ShroomFeverish

3rd place - Wizzo

It has been an honour to provide the tracks for this challenge and thank you for taking part.

Please PM for feedback if required although it'll be unlikely to be of much value as the crits were extremely minor.

Gary
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Re: MIX CHALLENGE - MC062 February 2020 - Winners announced

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First and foremost, congratulations to the winners!

The Winners Podium is
1) Mork
2) ShroomFeverish
3) Wizzo


We perform with the usual - please select one license out of the pool (in order of the winners podium) and mention it in this thread, then (important) get in touch with me via PM with your full name, email address and your plugin selection.

I'll update the "winners podium" thread shortly.

Thanks again for your participation. You can leave the thread alive if you want to exchange tips/tricks, edits, etc.



Please don't forget the Songwriting Competition - which needs as much love as the Mix(ing) Challenge. See you on the flipside.
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