Public Mix Contest #6

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NL5 said:
Rough mix -



I think it already makes my last attempt look pitifull.

Comments appreciated.

NL5
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well NL you know my deal.... I cant D/L it. LOL
 
Alright, I got that Logic issue fixed and listened to it a few times.

Question: How much editing is allowed?

Cause I think I'd like to edit the drums a bit, especially the kick and the toms. I'm not talking sound replacement here, just adding dynamics and timbral changes to your tracks and fixing the machine gun effects in the toms.

David
 
Heres a rough and NOT final mix for you guys to critique as this is not my genre......so any help would be appreciated...BUT im really digging this tune! 29 tracks of all sorts of things...hehe

I do have a question though....when you "mixing masters" listen to these entries...or all songs in general that come outta this forum....do you run things flat?...or are you listening to your normal everyday stereo setup?


http://home.comcast.net/~rakkasans101/Markaholic-BrokenVessel-entry.zip
 
geet73 said:
NL5, I think you need to bring out those vocals a bit more. Possibly a bit more bass too. The percussion seems to be taking over.
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Ok -

I took your advice (kind of) - I moved the bass up (in frequency - it was really bottom heavy), and brought up the BGV's, and brought down the "assorted percussion group" (no kick, snare, or shaker - but everything else "percussion").

Also, balanced out the BGV parts a little better.

 
NesBass

Remember the rules, the tracks are the tracks. Mix the song bud :)

Unfortunately that is the weak spot of rubber drum pads, you dont get the velocity information as nicely as you do with the mesh drum pads.

Also I evened out the velocities of the kick and snare on purpose. I felt the dynamics took it away from groove status.
 
When i listen I listen in the environment I normally listen. my Studio. The room was designed by mr Sayers, built by myself and is acoustically RIGHT. Everything i do in here translates elsewhere with no problems.

I even tuned a PA rig with an unmastered track out of here and amn was the room warm during the show :)

I normally just tune with a vocal mic, but I used a mix from here to set the crossover and aim the cabinets....
 
mattamatta said:
This one should be fun. Tracks last time were great. Not so much my style of music, but it was good for expanding my mixing horizons.
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hey Matta, my wife does a lot of stuff that aint my style either. LOL She has broadend my horizons musically and mix wise.

I should add. it aint her style either so we both have been broadened. She sings the lyrics and we hear a direction for the song. Never know where we will end up...

I have one song 64-67 tracks of orchestration. It took me 3 days to mix that track and then i still had to bring the composer in cuz i kept getting the position of the orchestra with relation to the drums/bass and Grand Piano wrong. In hindsigth I should have used a bosendorfer patch instead of a Steinway Patch. Bosendorfer mates with the orchestra a little better.
 
Mark, you are missing a bkgrnd note after the 2nd verse.....
 
Markaholic said:
I do have a question though....when you "mixing masters" listen to these entries...or all songs in general that come outta this forum....do you run things flat?...or are you listening to your normal everyday stereo setup?
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I listen in my studio at my house. It's a room in the basement that I converted. It is not acoustically correct by any means. I have it tuned pretty well though. I do know how things should sound in that room in order to translate to the rest of the world. My monitors are Mackie HR824's.
 
i was meaning EQ wise...dont be getting all technical on me now!...lol j/k
 
Well I guess the short answer is FLAT, cuz the room is flat and sound off the monitors meters flat. LOL

Flat tells the truth, cuz if it didnt people wouldnt buy auralex. LOL (taht is an auralex jab. not a personal jab. LOL)

Sorry to be to technical. LOL
 
=( I tried to download audacity, but it downloads really slow, and ends up with an error partway through.

Downloaded kristal, but I looked around and didn't see any easily apparent way to import tracks... plus it ran really slow, and I'd just prefer not to hafta fiddle with a new daw program just to make it work.... audacity was my first choice, being just a wave editor, as I'd rather have that on my system than kristal.

I need to get da souuuunds a mixin!

Someone fix my problem please :D

Wasn't there talk a while back about someone processing the files and uploading working versions?
 
mattamatta said:
That worked fine.
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Interesting. I just opened the file in Sound Forge, then re-saved it. When saving, I was told something to the effect that there was extra non-audio data associated with this file, and asked whether I wanted to save that as well. I saved it WITH the extra non-audio data.

Regarding the files I have, before I re-saved that one I sent you, I did have trouble opening them in many of my application. They do seem to work fine in my version of Cubase 5.1 VST. This is very annoying, and I haven't run into a problem like this before, just with Bryan's files.

I will try to resave those files for you. Unfortunately, it will probably take a while. But I'll try to get them uploaded for you. Would you prefer one ZIP file with all of the tracks, or individual tracks? I am not going to ZIP the individual tracks, but I will put them all in one ZIP file for you.

Stay tuned.
 
giles117 said:
I apologize, I deleted the file off my system before recording the BPM. I think it was around 90 or something but I dont really recall. I;d have to spend another hour decompressing the song to find out.

Count it like we all were taught :)

(count beats for 15 seconds, multiply by 4. you are usually within 1 or 2 BPM of the actual tempo) What bites is that when I export soundbites it does not keep the beat info with the soundbite in DP (or does it?????) Check your soundbites window to see if there is tempo information listed with the soundbite...It would be under soundbite info and should be with the mac versions of the download..... just check one individual file and see. :)

I meant to upload the DP sequence data file :)
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Bryan, no biggy about the BPM.:) I thought if you had it handy, good for figuring delays and such.
Anyway cool tune!! Damn she can sing up a storm!! Nice patch on the Rhoades too. I dig Rhoades.

T
 
Bryan, or any one else notice something funky goin on with the bass?
Bryan was the bass brought in by DI, mic , both? I'm getting some funky levels/buzzing. Like a cable was shorting?
Or am I hearing things?

T
 
Here's my first shot at it. The vocals don't stand out as much as I would like but I dont feel like restarting my computer then export again the upload......



It was at 106bpm for me.
 
personally, I would prefer one big wave file, cuz I have cable. Thanks for your effort.
 
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