Mixing challenge - voting thread.

poopot

The mixes are in, time to cast your votes!!!!

Vote for your top 3 mixes. If you have submitted a mix you can't vote for yourself. Feel free to share why you chose to vote the way you did.

1st choice gets 5 points

2nd choice gets 3 points

3rd choice gets 1 point

Final scores will be announced after voting ends at 11.30 on the 31st July

You can find all the entries the playlist below:

https://soundcloud.com/thefretboard/sets/thefb-mixing-challenge-no1

poopot

A reminder that voting is open!

darthed1981

I'll vote in order of who I think made the singer's voice sound sexiest, as I would imagine he is a very handsome man.... ahem....

1. Spark240

2. Poopot

3. Fretwired

Enjoyed them all though, great stuff

Roland

This based on listening through Shure SE215 IEMs. On balance:
1. Spark240. By far the best balance and EQ. IMO would benefit from panning the guitars a bit
2. Poopot. Ditto panning to move the guitars away from the vocals
3. Guitartango. I liked the clarity of the introduction with rotary and reverb on guitar 1, but with the guitar this high in the mix there were a few missed notes which could have been muted or turned right down. Guitar 2 was too low in the mix so the song lacked drive and energy compared with he others.

I liked the bass EQ from Fretwired and Brocco, but felt they were both over compressed. Bezzer - Vocals could have been louder.

Brocco

To my ears:

1. Spark240
2. Poopot
3. Fretwired

Enjoyed giving this a mixing lark a try

guitartango

Roland said:

This based on listening through Shure SE215 IEMs. On balance:
1. Spark240. By far the best balance and EQ. IMO would benefit from panning the guitars a bit
2. Poopot. Ditto panning to move the guitars away from the vocals
3. Guitartango. I liked the clarity of the introduction with rotary and reverb on guitar 1, but with the guitar this high in the mix there were a few missed notes which could have been muted or turned right down. Guitar 2 was too low in the mix so the song lacked drive and energy compared with he others.

I liked the bass EQ from Fretwired and Brocco, but felt they were both over compressed. Bezzer - Vocals could have been louder.

Thanks Roland, i used a pair of cheap £5 headphones to mix, now i have my good headphones back, i see what you mean

spark240

Tricky as clearly we have all approached this differently however of the other entries I thought - 

5 points - @Fretwired ;....a little harsh for me, and the whole mix is very loud compared to a standard streaming track, that said, I thought the balance was good, guitars nice position and vocals pretty clear.

3 Points  - @poopot ....Again nice balanced mix, overall volume good, nice guitar clarity.

1 Point - Could be anyone remaining really, Im going with @Bezzer , a good balance albeit overall volume a little low.

Personally I spent most time on the drums and vocals, I went through each drum track editing out all of the noise, then gated each one individually, EQ on each kit piece then Busssed the lot , added EQ again and compression.

Vocal  - again editing heavily, compression , EQ and finally a stereo reverb for more width, may have used a bit of Melodyne for pitch, cant recall.

Good challenge !

poopot

Ok... having listened to this track far too much since the jam day, I’ve had yet another round of listening
ive listened with decent cans, earbuds, in the car, crappy Bluetooth speaker and studio monitors.

5points to @Bezzer - good and clear... can hear everything with a nice balance. No harshness, no spiky highs. Sounds good streaming. A bit quiet but that leaves room for a bit of mastering!.

3points to @spark240 - out of all of them a very commercial sounding track. Everything is clear, nice fat drums.

1point to @Fretwired - nice balance across the mix to my ears.

good work chaps!...  

spark240

Nice challenge ..Well Done @Bezzer ;

poopot

spark240 said:

Nice challenge ..Well Done @Bezzer ;

Not won it yet voting still open!!!! Will announce who has won when all the votes are in!...

spark240

poopot said:

spark240 said:

Nice challenge ..Well Done @Bezzer ;

Not won it yet voting still open!!!! Will announce who has won when all the votes are in!...

Ahhh for some odd reason I thought you had the casting vote !

poopot

spark240 said:

poopot said:

spark240 said:

Nice challenge ..Well Done @Bezzer ;

Not won it yet voting still open!!!! Will announce who has won when all the votes are in!...

Ahhh for some odd reason I thought you had the casting vote !

Noooooooo... asked if I could run it as a dictatorship but it’s not in the spirit of the comp apparently!...

Fretwired

Good task and well done everyone .. harder than you think. My votes go as follows:

5 points to @spark240 - polished and professional

3 points to @Bezzer - good balance between the instruments and vocals

1 point to @poopot ; - good balance and well mixed vocals

poopot

Just a reminder... voting closes at 11.30pm today...

Bezzer

Nearly missed this because I'm useless!
 
5 to @poopot ;
3 to @spark240 ;
1 to @guitartango ;

To my ears the most balanced mixes and not overly compressed and/or effected.

Mind you my ears are shot, it's been a long day so it's probably not really the best time to do this, I apologise!

Modellista

5 points to @Fretwired - this to me sounds most "alive" - all the frequencies are present and nicely balanced.  A nice chewy sound.  Whatever's going on behind the scenes is not obvious - done with appropriate subtlety.  Not sure how you mastered it quite so hot!

3 points to @poopot - this sounds the least "produced", a nice dry mix, probably closest to what it sounded like in the room.

1 point to @spark240 - a good listen, the most "produced" - audible reverb trails on the drums and quite a scooped mix.

poopot

Voting now closed.