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| quote: | Originally posted by deejayTHUNDER
OK THAT DOES IT ! ! ! i'm jumping on the band wagon... I had posted this mix a few weeks ago on the site and got some feed back but i would like something a little more detailed.
Genre: progressive
Link: September 2004 Promo
Track Listing:
1.stage one - space manouvers (deepfish mara's re-edit)
2.panoptic - surface (original mix)
3.leama - requiem for a dream (leama dream mix)
4.ridgewalkers feat. el - find (original mix)
5.andy moor & andy white - the white room (original mix)
6.nikola gala & chrs mozio - colourless (original mix)
7.avid - the hunt (original mix)
8.dousk - the novel (original mix)
9.james holden - solstice (original mix)
10.j f sebastian feat. kaz - burden (leomn 8 remix)
11.arthur baker feat. astrid - 1000 years (andy moor remix)
thanx and i hope you enjoy the mix |
Mixes
1 - Slight double beat for about 8 beats. You fixed it nicely however.
2 - The phrasing is off on this one. "Requiem for a Dream" has 32 beat phrases and I think you were mixing for 16 beats.
Keys with audibly off.
3 - Abrupt mixing in of "Find" but only briefly.
4 - Worse mix of the set. The beatmatching was great but both tracks clashed with each other in more ways than one. The vocals, the keys, the elements of the tracks clashed. The mix sounded very cluttered.
Best thing to do is completely mix out as soon as possible and not try to fight it.
5 - Abrupt mixing in of "Colourless". The mix was short but it needed to be done because of the short break on "Colourless". I felt you could have waited longer before mixing in "Colourless".
6 - Good long mix into "The Hunt" but "Colourless" faded out really quickly at the end. Could have held Colourless for another 16 beats until that clap kicks in from "The Hunt". I liked the change in styles from melodic to deeper prog.
7 - Great mix. Nothing wrong with it except I heard your Windows events sounds firing in the background. Gotta mute all inputs but line-in 
8 - Mix had tiny offbeats that most people wouldn't hear. Didn't like this track picked to go after the nice groove you had going. It's too dark compared to the airry vocals and melody of "The Novel". I can see why you pick it however. The CD is ending and you wanted to close it with a bang.
9 - Timing is off. Mix came in 3 or 4 beats after the phrase started.
10 - I felt the track picked didn't go well with the previous two tracks. Decent mix though.
Overall the recording levels are low. Try normalising with a wave editor like Sound Forge to -6dB.
Comparing the first few tracks to the last few tracks the volume gradually went louder. I should also say that individual mixes the volume levels were fine.
Your beatmatching, though not perfect, is usually on par.
I felt some of the tracks could be switched around for it flow more. You obviously have a good handle on beatmatching. You started out with some tribal, immediately mixed into melodic prog for a few tracks and then went to deep prog for the rest of the set. I felt you lost level of energy created in the earlier part of the mix. Flow is entirely subjective but I wanted to bring it up to your attention.
Things I feel you should work on is, matching keys and programming of the tracks for flow.
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