billhughes1960

Thank you for the posting the video. Where did you find the link for that? I’d never seen it.

I’m going to email the site owners, link to this thread, and ask that in the future the rules be more clear.

That’s a HUGE omission from the rules – that there will be SIX winners instead of THREE.

Hi James!

I certainly do not find fault with your adding a piano to the song and based on the rules you’re absolutely allowed to do that. But it also means we’re no longer comparing apples to apples.

I also suspect that if an engineer was mixing a song for paying client most of us would think it was pretty unusual for the engineer to say, “Hang on a minute while swing around the glass to lay down a piano track on this.”

The facts of life are that when mixing, you deal with the cards you’re dealt. You tread lightly with the egos of the artist. As an engineer, I personally think it’s out of line to offer to sweeten-the-track. In over 30 years in the business, I’ve never witnessed it in a normal work for hire situation.

Make these contests either mixing or production. Award prizes for both.