KVR Audio

davemcisaac · Post by **davemcisaac** » Sun Jul 17, 2016 8:38 am

Not to worry - I'm just getting caught up after returning from a very nice vacation and will be posting my entry in the next couple days. As far as the comments about the vocals go, dealing with levels is not such a big issue to me. I will be automating some eq to even out the tonal differences when switching to falsetto. It's a fun track and I'm enjoying what I've done so far.

GaryNorthants · Post by **GaryNorthants** » Sun Jul 17, 2016 8:42 am

OK here is my version for now. I enjoyed doing this

The additional keyboard parts you might hear are the strings duplicated then eq'd before putting through a gate just to add a little more fullness and movement.
Gary

https://soundcloud.com/user-902329301/s ... -mix-1-mp3

Ichad.c · Post by **Ichad.c** » Sun Jul 17, 2016 11:23 am

I saw this a little late, but yeah, a very cool song so I would be a fool not to participate!

My whole mixing idea was to accentuate the groove that builds up and breaks the whole time to add contrast. Mostly used delays instead of reverb(except snare) to give a driving ambient feel but without drowning stuff out too much. As others said, the vox wasn't much of an issue once automation got involved. Ducking the sub via kick-sidechain is necessary IMHO.

Delays were mostly from a Sony D7 and EchoBoy, the rest was pretty standard stuff - Focusrite Red Compressor, dbx 119, Radiator, Lindell preamp/EQ, ReaXcomp, ReaEQ etc etc, and lots of automation as usual to get everything to play along together.

MP3 (44.1kHz)

https://soundcloud.com/ichad-c/an-elect ... c23-ichadc

WAV (48kHz)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0zqKT ... sp=sharing

Can wait to hear all the other mixes, good luck to all!

Regards
Andrew

Bibibeatgrid · Post by **Bibibeatgrid** » Sun Jul 17, 2016 11:48 am

A little bit playful, much automation ist going on...

MP3 320:

https://profi-satz.box.com/s/hpcd35788t ... 4p8rmt68k6

WAV 44.1/24Bit:

https://profi-satz.box.com/s/dhizn8ptl4 ... zqznokwq24

cheers
Bianca

Edit: Mix updated ...was way too much low end.

photonic · Post by **photonic** » Sun Jul 17, 2016 3:34 pm

Hi all,

Automation was very needed in this mix. But I did also split the vox in several tracks to do different EQ and dynamic for falsetto and chest voice. I used a lot of delays, slap back delays, satturation and some chorus to create different ambiance for the different voice parts.

MP3: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/717 ... otonic.mp3
WAV: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/717 ... otonic.wav

thiagoam88 · Post by **thiagoam88** » Sun Jul 17, 2016 9:23 pm

Hello, everyone.

So here is my attempt!

https://soundcloud.com/smartmix/an-elec ... thiagoam88

WAV: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_g4B ... nBSZ1pzRjA
MP3: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_g4B ... WtSZWVTSUU

I went for a modern, slightly bright mix. Decided to have the vox not too upfront but also not very "reverby". Used a hall reverb on most tracks along with a combination of different delay types and tempos. Apart from the usual corrective EQ and compression (mostly drums), I used a good deal of saturation specially on the drums, guitars, bass line and arp synth. Mix buss processing was a tape and console sim and SSL compression.

Good luck to all!

an-electric-heart · Post by **an-electric-heart** » Mon Jul 18, 2016 8:52 am

I notice no one autotuned the vocals... I did, the first "sees" in the chorus makes me cringe

But they're sounding good, well done!

photonic · Post by **photonic** » Mon Jul 18, 2016 9:06 am

an-electric-heart wrote:I notice no one autotuned the vocals... I did, the first "sees" in the chorus makes me cringe
But they're sounding good, well done!

I used ReaTune (comes with Reaper) with the manual correction on some notes. Some are showing in a correct pitch, but still sound a bit off. Maybe Autotune correction is more stringent?

an-electric-heart · Post by **an-electric-heart** » Mon Jul 18, 2016 9:14 am

photonic wrote:
an-electric-heart wrote:I notice no one autotuned the vocals... I did, the first "sees" in the chorus makes me cringe
But they're sounding good, well done!
I used ReaTune (comes with Reaper) with the manual correction on some notes. Some are showing in a correct pitch, but still sound a bit off. Maybe Autotune correction is more stringent?

Maybe I'm just imagining things. I use Pitcher in FL, but even then I use it very lightly.
I'm a trained singer, but my voice isn't always "in shape", I basically think of it as a safety net.

GaryNorthants · Post by **GaryNorthants** » Mon Jul 18, 2016 10:37 am

Interesting observation regarding tuning. I doubled the main vocal first and then used Melodyne to to lightly retune the original main vocal which I then used in parallel. Some of the high notes now have a more pronounced chorus effect produced by the main vocal being in tune compared to the doubled ones. I reduced the amount of vibrato/pitch drift more than actually hard tuning though in an attempt to keep it sounding natural.
Gary

thiagoam88 · Post by **thiagoam88** » Mon Jul 18, 2016 5:06 pm

I did use Melodyne to some very small pitch adjustment. I also used Soundtoys' Microshift, which detunes and delays an audio source in different ways to create a stereo effect.

Ichad.c · Post by **Ichad.c** » Mon Jul 18, 2016 5:42 pm

I only use pitch correction as a last resort, I'm not very fond of the sound, it either messes with transients, intonation or the feel of the vox. I prefer the age old trick of two hard-panned pitch-shifters - one up a couple of cents and other one down, mixed in low(just before it starts to sound like double tracking), this mellows the pitch out a bit.

Like thiagoam88, I also used Soundtoys' Microshift to do it.

michaeltn86 · Post by **michaeltn86** » Tue Jul 19, 2016 2:31 am

WAV https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B1zmQ ... URQQVJNbjg

MP3 https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B1zmQ ... kZOYkFYc1U

Hi everyone. Hope you enjoy! :] thanks for providing ur song for the contest.

Michael

Compyfox · Post by **Compyfox** » Tue Jul 19, 2016 1:47 pm

A friendly reminder for you folks:
Including today, 3 days left to submit your mix for Round 1 of the Mix Challenge

Also... we're still in need for new audio material - please get in touch.

3ee · Post by **3ee** » Wed Jul 20, 2016 3:21 pm

not too proud of my mix, but I guess it turned out OK

anyway, felt like doing a bit more of "industrial" a harder edge mix/sound on this song...

mp3: https://app.box.com/s/9tagch27bpo8t4azro6tvo2mvftlsb7u
wave: https://app.box.com/s/h8vuy3vxiujos0href8ia5vesne026ux

Didn't tune (well, applied a bit of auto-tuning) nor level automate the vocal, ...lazy, I know

Nothing fancy done to the mix to describe...

MIX CHALLENGE - MC23 July 2016 - Winners announced