(Please accept my apologies if this had been tried and failed before)
A recent thread about recording by
@TTony had me thinking...
What about a production challenge?
It could work along the lines of one person makes a short track. Their processed track would be posted and the stems (either fully dry or as unprocessed as possible recordings) are made available to all for editing. We can discuss what we did from a technical point of view. There could be a vote if the admins wanted to organise it.
After that anything goes. It could be an option for people to use their own tones, have different instruments more or less prominent in the mix, or even remix things by altering the existing structure.
We could keep it to only the existing tracks. Or we could allow additional tracks (E.g. different drums... or vocals to an instrumental)
It could be an interesting opportunity for us to see what people do with our work, whether it's tweak the EQ to vastly improve the clarity or turn it into some awesome bastard that bears little resemblance to what we originally had in mind.
What are people's thoughts? Could it be a worthwhile exercise? Or is it a step too far?
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Probably not a recurring challenge along the lines of the "otm" competitions, but as a one-off.
I certainly be interested in the *how* explanations - ie how those taking part did whatever they did to achieve the sound they achieved.
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let me know if anyone’s interested and I’ll find a way to get the individual tracks over!.
Likewise ... or I have many other weird ass tracks too ... be interesting to see if someone could make them sound good
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Should we restrict it to a tiny bit of editing or allowing anything from a bit of EQ to full on Fatboy Slim/Utah Saints treatment with all manner of overdubs being fair game? The latter would definitely be more interesting. Or we could do a mixing/mastering challenge and a remix challenge separately.
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If anyone fancies a start on this I have dug out an old cover we did a few years back of "let me entertain you".
There are 9 individual drum tracks, a bass track, main guitar, solo guitar, a few filler guitar parts and a "guide" vocal track (never went back to do the proper vocs). all as WAV Files, all straight up the middle, levels are all over the place and are "as recorded".
Dont want to step on @flying_pie's toes as it was his excellent idea. But if anyone is interested, send me a dm and ill provide the link to the files.
There's nothing stopping any of us submitting tracks at any point if there's an appetite for it.
A couple of folk have got the files now...
Just as a rough example, a short cut of the drums... "drums raw" is as recorded-no eq, everything up the middle... "drums basic" has a small amount of eq on each track, has been panned so each drum sits in its own space...
Big difference from such a basic edit!...
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https://soundcloud.com/user-296617142/sets/lmey-test-mixes
Nothing fancy for the mix, just panned so everything sits in its own space, basic eq on each track... the vocal track has been duplicated and placed slightly behind the original to give it a short delay.
sounds best either with headphones or with Robbie Williams singing
Perhaps I should talk about this in a different thread for beginners, but I really need to find out about the absolute basics. For example, I've no idea how to use a high pass filter effectively. Nor what @poopot means by 'panned so everything sits in its own space, basic eq'...
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