reaMIXed: The Reaper Mixing Contest - September 2021 - Big Dummy Shake

[darjama]

REAPER CONTEST - September 2021
(ONLY REAPER PLUGINS ALLOWED)



OFFICIAL WEBSITE: reaMIXed.com


MIXING: 1-16 September
VOTING: 20-26 September
RESULTS: 28 September
FEEDBACK: 29-30 September

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This month's track, chosen by last month's winner Dex, is "Big Dummy Share" by Moos Music. Moos Music is the songwriting team of Kristen Bishop and Duncan Eeles.

Please remember:

-NO GLUING OF FILES
-ONLY NATIVE REAPER FX -or- non-Native JSFX files that you include with your submission.

Also, I'd recommend taking advantage of the new normalization settings in the reaper rendering dialog to meet the LUFS and dbFS requirements. My suggested workflow would be:

1. Normalize to -14 LUFS.
2. If your mix peaks at or under -1 dbFS, you're done!
3. If your mix peaks over -1 dbFS, rerender it normalizing to -1 dbFS.

I'll be adding a Mix Check feature to the website soon. It's not done yet, but I may add it before the contest is over. With it you can check your projects to:
- Make sure your they don't contain disqualifying audio files
- Make sure your they don't contain disqualifying VST/AU plugins
- See what non-native JSFX files you need to include in your zip file
- See what non-native impulse files you need to include in your zip file (or maybe just which tracks have ReaVerb for you to check)

Once Mix Check has been tested I may not require you to send in the mixed flacs, just the project files, jsfx and impulses. I'd like to hear your thoughts on that.

You can download the multitrack from the website or clicking on this link.

Again, no prize this month, aside from the customary track-picking privileges for the next month's contest.

Happy mixing!
-Daryl

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IMPORTANT

• Please use the reaMIXed.com website as the main resource for the contest.

[westie07]

Hey Daryl, "Mix Check" feature sounds like a great idea. I stuffed up last month and didn't include a JSFX, giving you a bit more work to do, and holding up the competition.

Should make it a little less daunting for new comers like me.

Thanks
rob

[Maskmagog]

Hi all,
Such a great initiative, this whole ReaMixed thing is! I'm new to Reaper so this is a great way for me to learn. I've submitted my mix too, hopefully I managed to follow the rules.

[darjama]

Okay, I've added a beta of the Mix Check feature, please test it out and give me some feedback:

https://reamixed.com/mixcheck/

thanks!

[REDTone Studio]

Looking pretty good on the Mix Check.

When I check multiple files it doesn't refresh the first column. It keeps the list of VST's from the previous upload and continues to add to the list.

I assume a good work around would be to just refresh the page, but it seems to work fine for the other columns.

[darjama]

Thanks, should be fixed now.

[Dex]

Hey Daryl,

Are the results prepared to be released tomorrow? I'm just curious because the website homepage is still listing the results date for last month's competition.

[snrmark]

Dex, yes. I have the same issue here. Website showing previous results.

[darjama]

The site will update in 3 hours (midnight pacific time) with the results. Good catch though, I hadn't updated one of the dates in the database properly.

[darjama]

Congrats to Dex, Grundton and Maskmagog, nicely done!



See https://reamixed.com/results/ for comments and project files

[Maskmagog]

Well, this was fun! Congrats Dex, well deserved.
Thank you to everyone that commented, really appreciate you taking the time. Very healthy to get other peoples opinions.
Hopefully I'll find the time to do this again soon. Also interesting to learn the ReaPlugs and JSFX better.