Mix contest

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I'm a total mixing noob so I don't think I'll even make my mixing attempts public but it sounds like a nice way to get my feet wet. The song is great!
 

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Okay... I threw something together with Cubase.
I'm learning so feel free to tear it apart


I'll listen to yours tomorrow, chessrock. I'm sure it's better than mine (well, it should be!) and I don't want that dent in my ego right before I go to bed. :D
 
The mixes are coming. :)

Chessrock - pretty cool. I see you took the producer road. I liked what you did at the end with the pasted in vocals - low fi and all. That was nice. The slowdown was insane. What plug did you use for the slow-down? Is it tapestop, or something different?

Christian - I'll comment on yours tomorrow. :)

here's mine:
 
caryindy said:
What plug did you use for the slow-down? Is it tapestop, or something different?
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It was timestretch in Cool Edit Pro. Applied twice. :D Same effect as Radio Head used on the tune right before "Fitter Happier" on okay computer.

Dude, I must know what kind of reverb / ambience you used on the accoustic guitar on your mix. It sounds great, whatever it is.
 
;) sweet, my ears work again, lol...

how long will this contest run? there need's to be another of course ;)
 
Listening on headphones at the office now.

Cary: Just one thing that struck me: Imho the vocals are too low, especially compared to the acoustic guitars. But you'll probably say the opposite about my mix. :D

Chessrock: Has to wait until to night I'm afraid. Issues with downloading from NWR here at work. Could be a firewall thingy, I dunno.

Christiaan: Your mix, especially the drums sound too reverby this morning. :D
 
caryindy said:
OK, you can do this with internet explorer (or an FTP program)

Go here:
ftp://69.57.181.186/
You'll see a folder called 'incoming' but you're not there yet.

Go to file, 'Login As..."
fill in the username as: hr@ron82.com
and fill in the password as: mixing

You can enable the "save password" box if you don't want to have to type in mixing the next time you log on.
Click 'Log on" and then you should see a folder called 'mixing contest.zip'
You can right-click and copy to a folder on your hard drive.
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There was no "Login as" option for me in IE. Did you take the file off? Thanks RD
 
Yeah I think he took it down. Either that, or someone dragged the file out of the window into their computer instead of copying it and pasting...I'm not sure if ftp works this way or not.
 
Yeah Fenix, someone must have done just what you said. I feel if Ron needed to shut the FTP site down, he would have changed the user and password. I was able to upload to the site no problem.
Too bad I don't have the zip file here at work or I would have beed able to restore the file. It will have to wait until I get home tonight.
 
Yeah, can someone else restore the file? I'm not going to be able to do it until monday.
 
Hi. I’m still fairly new around here and a journeyman mixer at best, but thanks for the opportunity to take a stab at mixing some high quality tracks. You may never hear my result, because this thread will probably be long gone and forgotten by the time I finish my mix, but this will be a good learning experience to help me come to grips with my all-digital system (Cool Edit Pro older version, waves plug-ins, Alesis Monitor Ones).

My first step was to take the raw tracks and play with the volumes a bit to see what was there. Nice song. First, let me congratulate you on an excellent tracking job. There is nothing I perceive that needs to be “fixed” if you know what I mean. The acoustic guitar was especially well recorded and cleanly played. I compressed it a bit, boosted the upper frequencies slightly and added a bit of reverb and it is indeed sweet.

I was particularly interested in the drum tracks, because my band is going to record a demo at my house and I’m faced with recording drums for the first time. The kick drum sets off one of the toms, but this gets lost in the mix. I probably would have driven myself nuts trying to fix that unnecessarily. Lesson learned. Sorry, but I hate the snare sound. Too much like a field marching drum for my taste and there doesn’t seem to be much I can do to fatten it up. I added a bunch (probably too much) reverb to it. After listening a few times I think I’m starting to get used to it in a Police kind of way.

The other curiosity is the almost shouted section in the last verse. Comes from out of nowhere. Punched in? I reduced the volume on this section a bunch BEFORE I compressed and then some more after. I need more work here.

Overall, there doesn’t seem to be a lot of stuff in the higher frequencies and I find myself searching for places to bring that out more (maybe it’s my old ears that have lost all the high frequency response). The more I mess with this, the more I hear The Police….I think it’s the field drum snare and muted guitar stuff. Did you intend that influence?

More to come as I make progress.
 
voxjockey--

A word on the high frequency response:

This was the first time I had used the Presonus M80. It had gotten some pretty good reviews. Everything, except the bass guitar, was tracked through the M80. After tracking everything I realized this preamp SUCKS. It has absolutely no high end definition on it, relatively speaking. I think it sells for around $2000? You would think it would be a decent 8 channel preamp, but no, it's not.

I own a presonus Digimax LT 8 channel preamp and it kicks some serious ass compared to the M80...and it's $1000 less.
 
i make ambient/noise so i'm not used to mixing music :)

anyhow i've done my best and ended up with only using 11 tracks (doubling vocals and guitar) i spent a coupke of hours on it so there's propably a lot left to improve


btw i've done something with the vocals some of you might not like ?!



http://www.xs4all.be/~ziggy/tbttbaweb2/index3.htm


apparently there's a weird ducking effect that doesn't show up in wave. :mad:
 
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wetteke said:

btw i've done something with the vocals some of you might not like ?!
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I started listening with headphones on... you almost cut my head in two with those vocals. :D
 
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That's a great effect.


I just ran it through a BBE Sonic maximizer, and then out to a set of NS-10 reference monitors with the treble jacked all the way to 11.

Very soothing.
 
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