Personality mix

Archive Manic Mix-Off (Finished)
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Hi all my name is Alan Mansfield
Here is my mix, mixed in protools with Mcdsp plugs mainly and a few others like the stock stuff etc.

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Make sure to read all of the rules, you have to be a member with, at least, 10 posts in order for people to hear it. Links and site player are locked until then, So go ahead and introduce yourself and join our community for some discussion

#4

Hi Alan & welcome to the site.

I think what The Cptn means is that to qualify to enter the competition, you have to have at least 10 posts on the site here.

Unless your mix is uploaded to the site player and playable on it, your mix won’t qualify to enter the comp. For that to happen you need to engage somewhat with the community here and have a minimum amount of posts.

By the looks of things you have 2 posts now, so I’m sure another 8 won’t be a hardship.

All the best with your mix!

#5

Oh I see thanks for that

#9

Thanks! Yes that is what I meant Good luck @takka360 !

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#10

hey mate, mixes are great… kick and snare too domiinant though… IMHO Electric Guitar too far back… cheers

#11

Cheers for the listen

#12

Hey Alan, welcome! Great to see you here!
Happy New Year and good luck with the mix. :beerbang:

#13

Hi mate you too bud

#14

Man you have got them drums kicking. Did you do some triggering or is that just the drum tracks that came with the files? I think personally the balance between the acoustic and the electric guitars is a little slanted in the acoustic side. I think with the drums hitting so hard you could have brought the bass a little more into play as well giving it more of a drum and bass feel. These are just personal taste things really because this is a good mix.

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Cheers for the listen.No samples used

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#17

Cool. Good to know just for my own interest.

#18

Nice organic drum sound. Nice vox fx. I would bring the acoustic guitar a bit down, but that’s my personal taste.Great kick and bass too. Good luck!

#19

Thanks very much rick

#20

Listening to this again its not great at all eq wise I think I could have done far better. Think I rushed it too much

#21

I like your snare tone. I can hear the clicking sound throughout the song, is it a hihat? Cool mix.

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#22

Yes its heavily in the snare track. Cheers and glad you like it.

#23

Hi Takka,
Nice mix.
As a personal taste I would bring a bit down the acoustic and raise the electric gtrs.
I like very much the kick and the drums in general. I just think that they are bit loud at some points…
In the 1st verse when the vocals kick in I feel like the gtrs are a bit low and at 0:42 like the come back to the right volume. I don’t know if that’s on purpose or not but I’d prefer it on the same volume from the beginning.

Good luck

#24

Cheers ManAbyss for the listen and feedback

#25

I was going to say that Alan!
I think you do rush to much in general (out of enthusiasm, I guess? :slight_smile:)

I’ve listened to a lot of mixes from you over at Mike Senior’s discussion zone, and I think you’ve improved a lot by your hard work and tenacity, basically, you’ve got some great consistency that allows you to turn out a good mix in a few hours.

Now all that is missing is to go beyond that and put the time to turn out great mixes!
I’m absolutely sure you can do it, but it seems like you either get bored of a song or maybe you’re not ready to put the time in to get it to a superior level. I suppose it’s the 80/20 rule. You get that 80% good mix out of 20% of your time, but the 20% that would make it really awesome takes 80% of time and maybe you’re not ready to do that? I don’t know…

I hope you don’t mind me saying that because I think you are a good mixer, and I believe you could be a great one!

As a disclaimer: I’m don’t consider myself a mixer, which is why I don’t enter mix competitions, but I think I can recognize a good mix from a great mix. Too often you fell short of it because you rushed out in the end, and I think it’s a shame so this is why I’m telling you that.

Now this one in particular is good again, although I find it rather bright *TBH it’s true of most of the mixes I’ve heard so far, so it must be the material/genre itself that leads to that.
The acoustic is perhaps too predominant and the fizz in the distorted guitars would need taming IMHO. What could bring it to the next level though would be to make it less “static” work on various sections with different sounds, add transitions effects, etc… I don’t know.

Anyway, again a good job! :wink: