Good job everyone.
Really enjoyed the listening time this week.
QuickStrike: Very nice video and beat as usual. Really loved seeing you side filtering your drum loop as a meat and body effect for your beat and then settling down for a conservative level and not the other way around. Great Job !
Psycho: Great Drum. The thumping bass drums are my personal favorite when it comes to Rap beats. They were well sited on top of your mix and it really let me crank my volume up to enjoy the full dynamic of your beat. Great job.
PK: Now that to me is a perfect all around production in my taste. Starting from the quote ( which movie is it from? I thought it was good will hunting but Rob Williams doesnt use this exact expression in the movie clip i've checked ), the light headed sample and the Cut and scratch were perfectly matched. One bad note on my side would be that the high pitch upright piano sample that get in later might have been pitch down to match the key of your beat. The drum were also very well suited for your beat. Oh and that very low level voice sample in the back....very nice surprise when I heard it hahaha. This week you get my vote for the conceptual and
contextual production. Great job.
Dez: GREAT beat. The drum break you chose is one of my favorite. This beat is like early RZA meeting DJ Muggs on a EPS. Really enjoyed the complete production. everything was clear and bangin and again, you left enough Headroom for me to crank up my monitoring system. Very very good beat, a LOT of mojo and some very interesting ideas for someone of my generation. You'd get my second vote if there was one.
So that was it for me. I really enjoyed my time here. I didn't put much thought on my mix this week as I thought everyone agreed that we should send everything in the red in a 2 hr session but I really got misguided by my own analysis as all of you brought a better sounding mix to the table this week. By the way, whoever pointed out that my scratch were not legit, good ear. Vocal snips were from a youtube research and half the scratch were from a sample pack. Overall, I really enjoyed being called out as it brought the early 20 y/o kid in me back to were I was 15 years ago when I was still battling. It made me laugh even more when I saw the page and a half moaning after. In my era, when were calling out someone, we had to at least get down but I understand that time change. Also, you guys were totally right, this is a beat battle and should not be turned away from that. That leave place for every level of producer to part in.
I'm a mixing engineer for the last 20 years of my life ( yicks, thats scary to say
) and there's a fact that I guess some of you might know, maybe some others dont. There's no mixing engineer that will turn a shitty sounding beat into a sudden hard knocking well balanced mix.It's the same in any genre of music, Rock, Electronic, Rap..... It would involve too much time and usually clients are not willing to pay for a 3 day job that they could have done themself by editing, balancing and actually make some advised artistic decision. I just wanted to let people know in case they thought that sending your beat to mastering will magically bring their mix to a professional level.
So good looking out Gents.
It was very entertaining and I had a great amount of laughter, especially in the last week.
Keep up the good beat pumpin.