Who makes the best sounding mixes - CONTEST!

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Here's my contribution; a quick thirty seconds of Matthew Ives Quintet.
http://www.box.net/shared/ggi08h0122

Recorded live in my studio (i.e. lounge room).

Kit: four mikes, CAD KDM414 on kick, AKG 770 on snare, Rode NT5 x 2 on overheads.

Bass: DI only (but out to an amp for monitoring).

Keys: Technics SX-PX554 DI only (using its internal speakers for monitoring)

Guitar: Amp miked with AKG 770.

Sax: Behringer C2 (one of the most versatile and under-rated mikes around).
 
mshilarious said:
Still can't figure out why this isn't in the Clinic, but here you go, go nuts. This track is "Orianthi Pet Sounds Rumble". I didn't put that much effort into mixing it, and it shows! I dig the guitar parts though, that's exactly how I like to play :drunk:

Orianthi Pet Sounds Rumble
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You know, I kinda like this tune. It's discordant and unusual but overall, I like it's "restrained disobedience". Having heard it, I can understand now why you said the things you said in that thread a couple of months back on what you saw as the blandness of jazz guitar through the ages. Your piece reminds me of a cross between Terje Rypdal circa '75 and Keith Rowe {of AMM, Trevor Watts' string ensemble and Amalgam} in it's discordance. I've been pretty encouraged by most of the music I've heard from home recorders and when I come across the off the wall stuff, for some reason, it's more so.
 
NYMorningstar said:
Try this forum link below. Look for the Jan/Feb Challenge threads. This is already being done. To make it more challenging we swap each others lyrics to write music to and record. You'd probably like that.

https://homerecording.com/bbs/forumdisplay.php?f=32
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Hi, with respect, please (re?)read my earlier post(s), as I think that explains what this thread is all about.

Mshilarious - like the tones of the guitars a lot and the balance is very, er, nutral / natural - kind of wide sounding, whilst still being tight. That make sense? The Epi viola sounds superb, IMHO, and I like that you've thought about it all and gone with a downtune to get that sound. To my ears (and tastes) organic sounding instruments (for all their nuances and flaws) are preferable to highly processed sounding stuff which is somehow 'too' perfect.

Gecko zzed - nice piece. What part/s are you playing?
 
gecko zzed said:
Here's my contribution; a quick thirty seconds of Matthew Ives Quintet.
http://www.box.net/shared/ggi08h0122

Recorded live in my studio (i.e. lounge room).

Kit: four mikes, CAD KDM414 on kick, AKG 770 on snare, Rode NT5 x 2 on overheads.

Bass: DI only (but out to an amp for monitoring).

Keys: Technics SX-PX554 DI only (using its internal speakers for monitoring)

Guitar: Amp miked with AKG 770.

Sax: Behringer C2 (one of the most versatile and under-rated mikes around).
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The quick 30 seconds are too quick ! Lovely piece of music but totally frustrating because of it's shortness. It reminds me of many moons ago when I'd borrow a tape from a mate and the last song on a side was inevitably great but the tape would finish before the song did !
I've also come to realize that I'm a fairly useless judge of a mix from a technical point of view because if I like the piece, unless there's some real harshness or real lack (of say, bass) of something, I don't let the mix get in the way of my enjoyment. I kind of think, 'well, this is how the mixer mixed it therefore, this is the song'. If I had it as part of my music collection, that is how it would always sound.
 
gecko zzed said:
None. I just did the recording.
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Just to be clear, as previously stated, this thread is aimed at those who write and record their OWN material and are willing to pitch one of their pieces against those of fellow forum dwellers - just for fun, no slagging off will occur! (Not from me anyways!).

The purpose, I guess, is to see / hear who on this forum is doing what (musically) and to what standard. And, maybe, to get a bit of constructive feedback from fellow clued-up forum'ers (as a refreshing change from the missus' usual kind-hearted but dismissive, "yeah, that's sweet darling, now let's go shopping.")
 
grimtraveller said:
You know, I kinda like this tune. It's discordant and unusual but overall, I like it's "restrained disobedience". Having heard it, I can understand now why you said the things you said in that thread a couple of months back on what you saw as the blandness of jazz guitar
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That's all I have though, 1:30 of interesting stuff. The rest is mostly pretty boring, or bad impressions of Neil Young parodies (I've done Misfits and I can also do Jimmy Fallon's version of "Pants on the Ground"). So the pros still need to get off their duffs :D

Mshilarious - like the tones of the guitars a lot and the balance is very, er, nutral / natural - kind of wide sounding, whilst still being tight. That make sense? The Epi viola sounds superb, IMHO, and I like that you've thought about it all and gone with a downtune to get that sound.
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The Viola isn't tuned down, it has a .135 for a low string. Adjusting for scale length, that's just about normal tension. The width comes from purposeful use of opposite polarity micing of the kick drum and somewhat the sleigh bells.

I'm way too lazy to do heavily processed stuff (although there is only one snare fill, I copied it many times :D). This took me probably three hours start to finish . . .
 
kcearl said:
can we have a sub category for 3am, drunk, on phones, and a laptop?

Ill take anyone on!!!!!
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Oh I don't know guy, I'd give you a run for the money. Me and my friends excel at that.
 
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