Let me mix your song!

[diggy_dude]

I just got a control surface and am going to map it to Reaper this evening. I don't have any song ideas of my own at the moment but want to practice mixing. Send me your raw tracks to mix!

Thanks,
Jim

 

[diggy_dude]

What's the matter, McFly? Chicken?

 

[kcearl]

youd be better searching the MP3 clinic for mix competitions...folks may still have their files for download in there...

 

[diggy_dude]

youd be better searching the MP3 clinic for mix competitions...folks may still have their files for download in there...

Ah, thanks. I've never shopped for tracks to mix before.

 

[showstone]

Yup, what KC said....there are the tracks for Two Young Lads, a great folksy song to mix, Milk Cow Blues, a classic country type piece. Both of those are from Guitar Zero. Fun to mix.

I also downloaded GregL's Texas Terror, it's a fast paced, driving song. To me, it's like Scars on Broadway meets Cheap Trick/The Knack. Also a blast to mix.....just search the MP3 Mixing Clinic there are plenty more Im sure.

 

[CurveZer0]

I want! I want! I want!!! What should I do?

 

[EleEse89]

I have a song I could send you but pretty simple im guessing, its a reggaeton.
I dont have the beat brokem down, just, just uploaded the mp3 of the whole,beat onto pro tools and,recorded the vocals from there, im new at mixin n wantd a good example to go from
, I dont know wen is to much compression or wen to cut n boost with eq, could use sum help? I could upload the track tonight after work

 

[Greg_L]

Yup, what KC said....there are the tracks for Two Young Lads, a great folksy song to mix, Milk Cow Blues, a classic country type piece. Both of those are from Guitar Zero. Fun to mix.

I also downloaded GregL's Texas Terror, it's a fast paced, driving song. To me, it's like Scars on Broadway meets Cheap Trick/The Knack. Also a blast to mix.....just search the MP3 Mixing Clinic there are plenty more Im sure.

I've got a version of Bowie's "Suffragette City" in there too that you can mix if you want.

 

[diggy_dude]

Thanks for the offers, guys, but the control surface I just bought turned out to be a dud. The sad part is, it's hard to blame Ebay sellers when it's the slimy MBAs who refuse to build a quality product in the first place. No wonder the global economy is in the toilet.

 

[SouthSIDE Glen]

Diggy, I'm sorry to hear that you're having so many eBay troubles; between this and that Tascam cassette, this is tuning you to be a bad start to eBay 2011 for you .

I'm just wondering how many times one has to burn themselves before they stop touching the hot stove of buying stuff sight unseen from anonymous strangers.

G.

 

[kcearl]

yeah its a bit of a crapshoot...i bought a t1952 recently and two VUs were poked inside of the unit and non working..hard to tell who's fault, well the seller as he should have packaged it right


Saying that Ive sold 9 items in the past week and other than some flowery language they were all as described...the worst burn i got was from a "friend" on a motorbike site, had to eat up $200 and grin for that one

 

[diggy_dude]

Diggy, I'm sorry to hear that you're having so many eBay troubles; between this and that Tascam cassette, this is tuning you to be a bad start to eBay 2011 for you .

I'm just wondering how many times one has to burn themselves before they stop touching the hot stove of buying stuff sight unseen from anonymous strangers.

G.

I did finally get a good working cassette deck today. It's a JVC dual-well unit with auto reverse and B/C/HX Pro - what I wanted all along. (The particular 112R unit I got didn't have HX Pro, oddly enough.) The Technics that was working the other day isn't working now. Either the motor burned out or there's a fault in the electronics that drive the motor.

The seller of the 112R has agreed to a full refund if I return the deck C.O.D. So that loss is covered at least. If they still made the US-428, I would've bought a new one. It really is a cool device and would've been worth full retail price.

The Kaballists say eleven (as in 2011) is an evil number, being the number of classes of demons lurking under Malkuth in the Tree of Life. They must be right.

I'm definitely closing my Ebay account once all of my recent purchases arrive and all cases have been settled. There's nothing to be gained from trying to save a buck by buying someone else's unwanted junk, even if it's something that can't be found in stores anymore. At least I have a shitload of awesome vintage Casio keyboards and some other cool vintage gear (until it craps out anyway), so it hasn't been a total loss.

 

[diggy_dude]

yeah its a bit of a crapshoot...i bought a t1952 recently and two VUs were poked inside of the unit and non working..hard to tell who's fault, well the seller as he should have packaged it right

The packing job the seller did on the Tascam 112R was a fucking joke for the $30 shipping fee he charged. At least I'm getting that money back.

Saying that Ive sold 9 items in the past week and other than some flowery language they were all as described...the worst burn i got was from a "friend" on a motorbike site, had to eat up $200 and grin for that one

I feel ya, bro. I had to sell my 2009 Buddy for $600 the other day so I could afford a new cast aluminum rim and back tire for my Vespa GTS 300 Super that were damaged by road construction.

 

[Greg_L]

ebay sucks. I'd rather spend a little more and buy it new and local, or at least from a reputable internet retailer.

 

[diggy_dude]

ebay sucks. I'd rather spend a little more and buy it new and local, or at least from a reputable internet retailer.

So would I, if they still made the stuff I'm looking for.

For that matter, the new Behringer mixer I bought at Guitar Center didn't last any longer than the used ones I got on Ebay. I'm beginning to think M-Audio is the only company that makes anything worth a fuck anymore.

 

[kcearl]

So would I, if they still made the stuff I'm looking for.

For that matter, the new Behringer mixer I bought at Guitar Center didn't last any longer than the used ones I got on Ebay. I'm beginning to think M-Audio is the only company that makes anything worth a fuck anymore.

you might be right...ive bought a few audio interfaces over the last two years and I still go back to my M audio quattro and omni....just perfect regardless of its age, in fact Ive bought another just in case it dies...

 

[SouthSIDE Glen]

I'm beginning to think M-Audio is the only company that makes anything worth a fuck anymore.

I don't want to get started on a brand name flame war, but I read that and thought I woke up in Bizarro world.

There's nothing wrong with buying used stuff, it's the sight-unseen from a stranger aspect of it that's asking for trouble. One of my buddies deals back and forth on Craigslist all the time and has never had a problem, but that's because he only works with local folks whose real address he can determine and with gear that he can inspect before he buys it.

And eBuy is OK when you're buying some non-electronic and non-mechanical stuff that's hard to show pictures of broken. I got some fantastic deals on some good eyepieces for my telescope last year that way, for example. But anything with electronics or motors in it I wouldn't even *think* about buying unless I could check it out first person first.

G.

 

[kcearl]

I don't want to get started on a brand name flame war, but I read that and thought I woke up in Bizarro world.

There's nothing wrong with buying used stuff, it's the sight-unseen from a stranger aspect of it that's asking for trouble. One of my buddies deals back and forth on Craigslist all the time and has never had a problem, but that's because he only works with local folks whose real address he can determine and with gear that he can inspect before he buys it.

And eBuy is OK when you're buying some non-electronic and non-mechanical stuff that's hard to show pictures of broken. I got some fantastic deals on some good eyepieces for my telescope last year that way, for example. But anything with electronics or motors in it I wouldn't even *think* about buying unless I could check it out first person first.

G.

other than a couple of keyboard/controllers the interface is the only m audio stuff ive owned, and the Axiom was a quality piece of kit...I wonder where they went wrong

and as for ebay..Ive had pretty good luck, I buy and sell tonnes on there...in three countries and never had a real problem, I never buy "as is" or ones with no return policy as a rule though

 

[diggy_dude]

I don't want to get started on a brand name flame war, but I read that and thought I woke up in Bizarro world.

All I can say is, none of my M-Audio gear has ever failed. Whether it will eventually fail remains to be seen.

One of my buddies deals back and forth on Craigslist all the time and has never had a problem, but that's because he only works with local folks whose real address he can determine and with gear that he can inspect before he buys it.

If I waited for something interesting to turn up on Oklahoma City craigslist, I'd be well over 100 years old before I finally put a studio together. This shithole is devoid of anything of value. I'm not kidding.

 

[diggy_dude]

and as for ebay..Ive had pretty good luck, I buy and sell tonnes on there...in three countries and never had a real problem, I never buy "as is" or ones with no return policy as a rule though

I've had good luck with Casio stuff found on Ebay. Even the worst items were salvageable. That's owing more to the extremely high quality of Casio products than the integrity of Ebay sellers though.