GearFest Mixing Contest

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A lot of the mixes are maximized. When you send a mix to the mastering studio you don't send a maximized track. I think that also is important the correct volume and if it's possible mastering this track.
Sorry for my bad English and spellings faults heheh
 
thefyn said:
I had a bash:

How do you link it to the contest?

I used Sonar X1 and crysonic, waves, rob pappen and soundtoys, breverb plugs via Roland quad capture USB and Alesis monitors and ATH-M220 heaphones.
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for me too much delay. good luck
 
QuintaQuad said:
Here's a sneak peek of my mix. Not quite through with the vox but my ears need a break. Suggestions welcome...
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I like the vox, but the guitar no sounds clean here in my studio. too much efects maybe
 
Hi Mates!!
I'm Indy Lopez from Spain.
I am delighted with this mixes contest, mainly for two big reasons:
1st the opportunity to mix this great song out of my usual style.(Normally House Music is my place) and 2nd the hope that many of you give me your opinion and get better at this art.

The idea has been to give it a modern mix, respecting it is a live recording, the artist but always with my personality.

I've created a kick clean with punch, plates, snare and toms with natural color, bass has one track modulated in center mono and one stereo to cover nice with energy, the lead guitar track have an subtle spreader effect that gives movement that sometimes seem to have more than one guitars And for the voice I gave a little tube hot color and a subtle opening , short delay, rever with Nectar to do a Rock-soul modern and fresh style .

Hope you like it!

All opinion, comments....etc are welcome.

Good luck to everyone



Gear:
Macbook 2.13Ghz dual2core 4Gb ram
Daw: Logic 9
Monitors DAT B-100 (Homemade re-worked) - VMB sl900 Solid Line - My super Philips Home Cinema (As comercial reference) XD
Soundcard: Tascam FW1884 (also Contro surface)
Plugs: Waves 8 + Izotope Nectar + Natives plugs from logic 9
 
Auralsects said:
To Sychronia:
Kick gets a little overwhelmed, but I like your base mix. Also, a little top end eq would go a long way to make the whole thing come together. Vocals have it, but the rest is made dark by the lack of. Good work@!
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Thanks for listening, I decided to keep the kick not so evident.. maybe I could add some 5k to make it more upfront but in the end I went for a more natural sound. Thanks again for your comment! ;)
 
Every time I try to adjust my mix I go back and listen to my first mix and proceed to trash the "fixed" mix. There's that feed back early in the song after the first chorus. Irritating but what can you do?
 
AndyGallas said:
Wow, almost 1000 mixes, I wonder where this ends?

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Nice job. One of the saner mixes I've heard so far. (I'm not pointing any fingers!).

I really hope they take those Puremix subscriptions and give them to people who could really use them. Likewise with the gear. I'd really hate to see those Focals go to some dude sitting behind a $300,000.00 SSL and a couple of Bowers and Wilkins or Genelec 1036a. Because you know that a guy who already has an established studio is only going to want them for the hoard value. Sure give them the guy with the best mix who could use a new set of monitors....channel strip, microphone, DAW.
 
I like a lot of the mixes myself. There were a lot of people who did not catch certain things in the mix though. I think I got them all. I saw a comment on people maximizing their mixes. I did mine. If they want it unmastered, it can easily be done.
 
I would bash my face in if I had to listen to a song 1000 different times and have each one a little bit different.
 
csiaudio Submission for GearFest/PureMix Contest

Hey!

Well I hope the judges aren't to tired to listen to one more. Love the song and it's refreshing to have the opportunity to mix extremely talented musicians!!

Well, good luck to me, right!? LOL


 

Please comment the negative one, thanks!
 
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Chater-La said:
Biggest Ever Audio Mixing Contest is ON!

Over $18K in high end Pro Audio equipment to be distributed to the winners.

Starting April 16th 2013, the race for mixing the best sounding version of Liza Colby Sound’s
song ‘Oh Baby’ is on at pureMix.net. The contest is free and is sponsored by the following
companies : Dangerous Music, Focal Professional, Universal Audio, Blue Microphones,
Presonus, Lauten Audio, Vovox and Sweetwater.
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This is very challenge event. Thanks PureMix.
 
sound of wool said:
With more than a thousand participants one can't help but wonder if the jury will listen to every mix? It simply does not seem reasonable...

Sound of wool Gearfest puremix contest:
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Nice mixing. Good luck for you!
 
Hello all, please check my mixing:




Gear Festival Puremix Contest 'Oh Baby', mixed by Jeffry Siregar in my Home Studio
Software: Presonus Studio One 2 and Celemony Melodyne Editor
Hardware: Kurzeweil KS40A (Speaker Monitor)
I created 11 Tracks:
1. Kick Bass: add Rock Kick S1 Drum Preset
2. Snare: add RedLight Dist effect S1
3. Overheads (Pan Left): add RedLight Dist effect S1
4. Overheads (Pan Right): add RedLight Dist effect S1
5. Bass DI (Pan Left): add Bass Compressor and Channel Strip S1 Preset
6. Bass DI (Pan Right): add Bass Compressor and Channel Strip S1 Preset
7. Bass Amp: add Bass Compressor S1 Preset
8. Guitar (Pan Left): add Delay and Rock Effects S1 Preset
9. Guitar (Pan Right): add Delay and Rock Effects S1 Preset
10. Vocal (Pan Left): add Live Reverb S1 Preset
11. Backing Vocal (Pan Right): Backing Vocal copied from Vocal Layer edited using Melodyne

In Main Output, I add 'Clarity' S1 Preset
I only mix not mastering, with Studio One tool it has good level output.
I hope you enjoy my mixing.
GBU!
 
Here is my attempt for the contest. Any constructive feedback would be great, thanks!!

 
here's mine. I'm not actually sure what to do with this to actually be entered.

 
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