» Monged Out Mix Competition - deadline 10th August!

[sexualninja3000]

Originally Posted by Ray_Von

Nice to see we got some interest in the comp. Will be posting full details this weekend at some point, in the meantime....

ouch. youd be at risk of snagging your banjo string if you used that.

[Ray_Von]

Right then folks, just to let you all know the mongedout mix comp is officially OPEN!
In addition to the fame, kudos and red hot street-cred the winners will get, Mong has kindly offered to donate a modest prize for the overall champ, with a second mystery prize on offer for the mix that gets voted as the most FUN.

Comp Rules.

1st round.
- Mixes must be 30 minutes or thereabouts in duration.
- CDs, TTs or software is fine as long as NO AUTO SYNC is used. (Mixed by your own hand and not by a computer please).
- Mixes to be encoded at 192 or 224 kbps Mp3.
- Ensure you put who you are in the file title!
- Mixes are to be submitted to myself - please PM me for an e-mail addy to send them to.
- Deadline for mixes is 12:00pm Sunday August 10 UK Time.

Final round.

- Mixes to be no longer than 1 hour in duration.
- Deadline for mixes TBC.
- All other rules are the same for this round.

Winners will be decided by public polls.

If anyone has any questions about the comp then give me a shout and i will try and help.


OK then ladies (?) and gents it’s time to fire up your systems and wump out some tunes.
Most importantly y’all, enjoy getting your mixes on.

Good Luck!!

[sproggy]

Ray, you can't read that on Default View colour-scheme. Do you want me to edit it for you? The colours need changing.

[Stab]

not using auto sync on software is a dodgy one, in ableton you dont need to autosync.
I'll go for the mix that's the most fun, I would feel a cheat to go for the winner spot using traktor.

[Ray_Von]

I'm going to start a new thread for this so the rules are on the first post. Hopefully we can then get rid of this thread. Not sure what went wrong with the colours, seems OK now on my screen. Was feeling a bit monged earlier due to an excessive cider drinking session last night, bit more with it now.

Stab - Traktor is fine as long as you aren't using it to beatsnyc for you. Ableton wouldn't be as it does the beatsyncing business for you. Hope this clarifies things a bit.....

[Stab]

yeah but it's up to me to be honest about using beatsync or not and the way I use traktor it's not possible for me to play a different way, well it is but it's a hassle. Lazy stoners generally will click a button rather than do it the old fashioned way. Going with traktor just got rid of the formality with beatmatching, freeing up my time to dick around with loops more.

I'll do vinyl or something, I can't be trusted with these beat sync buttons (not that my traktor is any good at it anyway)

[Ray_Von]

Hmmmm I see what you mean about this it is a potential grey area - at the end of the day it is up to poeple to be honest about it, maybe I should just say any method of mixing is ok to make it simpler....?

[sproggy]

I do think that it's fair to have a level playing field, but I don't see why there is a dilemma, unless it is that you can't do manual beatmatching on certain equipment.

I would have thought it simpler just to summarise the rule as, you must do your own, manual beatmatching & blending, whatever you use. Or is there a problem with this that I don't get yet?

[sproggy]

... Ahh, I think I see. Basically Ableton isn't really mixing, as we think of it.

Sorry, I've never tried using it to construct a mix yet, but I think I get it.

[Stab]

for me using software allows a far greater number of options when mixing, that's why I went over from vinyl.
My 2p is this, make it open to anything mixing wise but make people be honest about it. Using ableton for example to make 4 songs blend seamlessly into each other over 30 minutes is hardly ground breaking. Using ableton to completely deconstruct something and remix everything in it LIVE is special, not that I can do it.
The old way we judged these things was on beatmatching/creativity/tune selction and flow if I remember right. Therefore a software mix would (should really) score low on beatmatching but then if you're using it properly you should score higher for creativity.

Or something like that