GearFest Mixing Contest

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soupiraille said:
What did you find most difficult and challenging when you mixed the song?
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Personally I found the song quite easy to mix, a few things bothered me a little though: At first the snare bleed got on my nerves, but then I found out that the hihat was essential for the chorus, so I tamed it a little and it became my new friend. Second was the guitar that needed some more edge and "space" here and there, not in a "studio kind of way" but just for the excitment of the track. Last was the toms in the end that i first wanted to trigger, but didnt and I just settled with some low end eq on the overheads instead and lived with it. The bass was totally fine, i actually used both channels and the vocals was very nice to work with too, a little automation here and there did the trick for the whole song (for me).

To me this is a song that must live by it self, without too much help from processesing or other effects. But hey, that's just me!

/All the best from Sweden


Sound of wool - Gearfest puremix contest:
 
So.. the deadline is pretty much here and I think I'm done with my mix.
 
SonicSculptor said:
Sadly, for now, they do not know the 'real' difference' in the file types ...and likely cannot hear it either... we are all - always growing. For me, at best, mp3's are like looking out a screen window. You can see your neighbor, but it's tough to tell if she put her makeup on today?

Everyone should do themselves a favor and upload .wav files.
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I really dont understand why someone would work hours on a mix and bounce an mp3 at the end?! :facepalm: Oh well...

 
Hey everybody,

this is my mix. Tried to put you in front of the band. Such a great energy in the song. Listening to other submissions, i find there is so much harshness in a lot of mixes, I wanted to have mine sounding a little more fat in the low mids. Check it out and let´s see how you like it. You can find the mix details in the soundcloud description.

Good luck!!

#ttps://soundcloud.com/oliver-haertel/oliver

PS: It´s sad that there is the post count restriction. Don´t want to spam the forum with 9 fake posts. Have a listen fellow mixers!!

Thanks.
 
Ha, it happened – over two thousand mixes. tataaaaaaaaaa

I find that there are quite a number of very good mixes. For sure I couldn't pick one as the best sounding mix. I think up from a certain level a lot is also a matter of taste and preferences. So I'm really curious what the jury likes. Very nice event and very interesting to hear mixes from one song all over the world.

Cheers,
Andy
 
Ha! So it did hit 2000 mixes! When I posted on another site about 4 weeks ago after uploading my mix, the count was about 300-400, & I offhandedly mentioned that I thought it might reach 2000 - & now it has! A lot of great mixes to sift through...

Regardless of who turns out to be the winner, I always find I learn lots from listening critically to a lot of mixes of the same song & commenting on them like this. If people aren't taking the opportunity afforded by this contest to do that, they are missing out on honing probably one of the most important skills that a mix engineer must learn - critical listening.

All the best, everyone!
 
fHumble fHingaz said:
Ha! So it did hit 2000 mixes! When I posted on another site about 4 weeks ago after uploading my mix, the count was about 300-400, & I offhandedly mentioned that I thought it might reach 2000 - & now it has! A lot of great mixes to sift through...

Regardless of who turns out to be the winner, I always find I learn lots from listening critically to a lot of mixes of the same song & commenting on them like this. If people aren't taking the opportunity afforded by this contest to do that, they are missing out on honing probably one of the most important skills that a mix engineer must learn - critical listening.

All the best, everyone!
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Well said sir, i totally agree! :thumbs up:
 
Here is my mix

Here is my mix , nice contest , Good luck to every one and thank you very much!

#ttps://soundcloud.com/guan_zi_zai/guan-zi-zai-mix-gearfest-2013
 
OK... so, I've been working on this mix for a couple of weeks and I'm still not sure if I'm there.
Can y'all tell me what you think, before I submit it?
[MP3]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/65316259/Mixing%20Contest.mp3[/MP3]
 
The snare is powerful but a bit too bassy. Bass could be improved but overall a good effort!
 
fHumble fHingaz said:
Ha! So it did hit 2000 mixes! When I posted on another site about 4 weeks ago after uploading my mix, the count was about 300-400, & I offhandedly mentioned that I thought it might reach 2000 - & now it has! A lot of great mixes to sift through...

Regardless of who turns out to be the winner, I always find I learn lots from listening critically to a lot of mixes of the same song & commenting on them like this. If people aren't taking the opportunity afforded by this contest to do that, they are missing out on honing probably one of the most important skills that a mix engineer must learn - critical listening.

All the best, everyone!
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This has been pushed pretty hard!
 
sound of wool said:
Personally I found the song quite easy to mix, a few things bothered me a little though: At first the snare bleed got on my nerves, but then I found out that the hihat was essential for the chorus, so I tamed it a little and it became my new friend. Second was the guitar that needed some more edge and "space" here and there, not in a "studio kind of way" but just for the excitment of the track. Last was the toms in the end that i first wanted to trigger, but didnt and I just settled with some low end eq on the overheads instead and lived with it. The bass was totally fine, i actually used both channels and the vocals was very nice to work with too, a little automation here and there did the trick for the whole song (for me).

To me this is a song that must live by it self, without too much help from processesing or other effects. But hey, that's just me!

/All the best from Sweden


Sound of wool - Gearfest puremix contest:
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You should have challenged yourself friend, those toms at the end are pretty quiet. The rest however, is good! Good mixing on individual tracks.
 
propman said:
OK... so, I've been working on this mix for a couple of weeks and I'm still not sure if I'm there.
Can y'all tell me what you think, before I submit it?
[MP3]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/65316259/Mixing%20Contest.mp3[/MP3]
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Sounds pretty damn good to me - perhaps the hats cut through a tad too much in the chorus, but it's not much - maybe just a little bit of shelf eq up high would bring that down - I love the vocals & the subtle ambiance on them - very well judged - sweet mix!
 
F13Bubba said:
I think this is it.



After letting it stew for a few days, I got back to it today. I tweaked the sidechain compression between kick and bass, softened the eq on the kicks low end a tad, upped the bass in teh mix, and put some overdrive on the guitars.

I was having trouble with the hats being too present, so I went in and manually cut out all but the snare hits on the snare track so I could put the overheads as high as I wanted them to be. It was tedious, but you don't win competitions by cutting corners. I also brought up the applause at the end and used a super taps 2 to make it stereo. Anyway, let me know what you think!
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The overheads are great! Too much vocal reverb and did you pitch shift the vocals slightly?
 
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