Mixing Challenge no'2

poopot

GuitarAndy2 said:

I'm a bit rusty on the mixing front, but sure I'll give it a go.

Files sent.

poopot

@spark240 submission in the playlist.

PolarityMan

poopot said:

@spark240 submission in the playlist.

Oh and thats a tough one to beat too.

spark240

PolarityMan said:

poopot said:

@spark240 submission in the playlist.

Oh and thats a tough one to beat too.

Nahh......happy to share my ideas ;-)

schrodinger1612

I might give this a go, please pm me the link

poopot

schrodinger1612 said:

I might give this a go, please pm me the link

Files Sent.

PolarityMan

I head off on hols on 25th which is jsut after voting starts so can someone @mention me or something to make sure I remember to vote on this? (although unless there are some late entrants I could prob submit my votes now).

Is it too early to start some chat about how we approached the mix?

poopot

PolarityMan said:

I head off on hols on 25th which is jsut after voting starts so can someone @mention me or something to make sure I remember to vote on this? (although unless there are some late entrants I could prob submit my votes now).

Is it too early to start some chat about how we approached the mix?

Not too early at all!... feel free to share!...

ill give you a reminder on the 24th for votes!...

would be good to get some more mixes in...,there was a few folk that requested the files!...

guitartango

Sorry @poopot not had time to mix them yet... will try this week

poopot

guitartango said:

Sorry @poopot not had time to mix them yet... will try this week

Only 4 days left!

PolarityMan

poopot said:

PolarityMan said:

I head off on hols on 25th which is jsut after voting starts so can someone @mention me or something to make sure I remember to vote on this? (although unless there are some late entrants I could prob submit my votes now).

Is it too early to start some chat about how we approached the mix?

Not too early at all!... feel free to share!...

ill give you a reminder on the 24th for votes!...

would be good to get some more mixes in...,there was a few folk that requested the files!...

Ok so I thought it would be funny to approach this like a metal mix. So the first thing I did was sample replaced the kick and snare. theres a tiny bit of the original tracks in there but most of what you are hearing is the samples mixed with processed overheads. Overheads were hi-passed and smashed with a compressor then the whole drum group was compressed a little bit more.

I then duplicated the bass and hi passed one track and low passed the other. I ran each track through helix native, one with distortion from the darkglass pedal emulator into the Mesa bass amp model. The lows I ran into the SVT model then I blended them both together and smashed them pretty hard with a compressor. 

The guitars I massively preferred the cleaner track to the distorted one so I ended up creating a fake double of it so I could run it on both sides and then treated the more distorted guitar as a layer. I hi passed all guitar tracks and gave them a touch of EQ to boost some high-mids and cut some particularly abrasive frequencies.

The clean guitar that I liked was really dynamic though and I wasnt compressing the guitar tracks so I volume automated down some of the real loud parts to sit better in the mix.

The solos I put through some delay and compression and let them really poke out through the mix,

For the vocals it was just a little EQ, hi-pass and a little boost at the top then into a compressor which I hit pretty hard and routed via sends to verb and delay.

Whole mix was about an hour, maybe an hour and a half.

So basically used all my standard go-to metal processing tracks but surprisingly I thought it didn't sound terrible despite my methods being pretty inappropriate for the genre  

Would love to hear what you and @spark240 did

edit: forgot the snare mics were really out of alignment, so I nudged them together by hand first.

spark240

Errmmm.....I cant remember !...I didnt spend too long on it, Ill get the mix up again and see what I did.

poopot

One more in the playlist from @Modellista ;

https://soundcloud.com/thefretboard/sets/thefb-mixing-challenge-2-superstition

Just a reminder that entry will be closed tomorrow night.

Bezzer

TOMORROW night?  Cool ... thought I'd missed this completely.  Jury service kinda took over my brain and was working in the evenings.  Will see what I can do tonight, hopefully ears still working by then!

poopot

Bezzer said:

TOMORROW night?  Cool ... thought I'd missed this completely.  Jury service kinda took over my brain and was working in the evenings.  Will see what I can do tonight, hopefully ears still working by then!

That was yesterday... Tonight is the deadline....

Bezzer

I have clearly lost all track of time ... jesus. 

poopot

Bezzer said:

I have clearly lost all track of time ... jesus. 

Yep... it’s Christmas soon

GuitarAndy2

Had a nightmarish week or so at work, this had completely slipped my mind. If midnight counts I might be able to get something put together this evening, can't make any many promises though.

Fretwired

And submitted .. decided to go retro and vintage on this for a 70s vibe.

stratman3142

Fretwired said:

And submitted .. decided to go retro and vintage on this for a 70s vibe.

Added to playlist on behalf of @poopot who's stuck at work.