thanks for taking a listen @joerobinson ! Excited to hear your 5/4 piece. And yes, let’s definitely stay in touch! Would be a blast to work with you 🙂

thanks @dana !! DISCO’s “artist page” playlist share for the win on the aesthetic! Appreciate your kind words 🙂 Going to be releasing “Happy” in the new year with a bigger collection of original stuff.

Great to connect with you to @joerobinson ! If you’re ever looking for some cinematic orchestral additions to your work, I’d love to chat! Linked some of the (mostly) orchestral stuff I’ve been doing this past year or so.

Also @dana if I’m making a faux pas by sharing stuff in this format, lemme know! Want to respect the boundaries of…

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😱 @dana out here tryna make my dreams come true

thanks my friend. Excited for this release

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This is sounding great @shimmerisland – super lush with lots of dimension and clarity. Great work getting this beast to the finish line! Love the beat switchup in the bridge, as well as the drop chorus and beat switchup stuff leading into the ending. Fav sounding Shimmer Island track to date

Love this @dana – going to be a point of reference for me moving forward (as your responses to that initial post already are).

Also – how cool to see @JoeRobinson here in the Mix Protege community. Been a fan of yours for many years!

Thank you @dana !

All the love

updated mix, applying most of the notes y’all recommended. Thanks for your insight and enthusiasm. Means the world!

Roy! Thank you for the feedback my friend. I’ve tamed the wow synth and the ending piano a tad, and adjusted a few other things (vocals, dynamics between sections) a bit. Appreciate you taking the time to listen 🙂

Dana! Thank you so much for your kind words. Half of the joy I get from completing music these days comes with getting to share it with this wonderful community you’ve gathered here. So grateful for the words of encouragement.

2:34 dropout idea is great!
I definitely agree that the wow synth is a bit forward. I’m gonna soften it a bit
Great call…

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Jesse! Thank you my friend. You humble me!
I very much appreciate that constructive feedback. I definitely went back and forth on the beat on the verses…I ended up sticking with it this way cause it just made the fall into the choruses that much more of a landing pad, but you make a really good observation.
And I hear you about the chime guitar…

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<div>Just finished a mix for this song and in the feedback stage. Would love to hear anyone’s thoughts on this! Definitely a heavy hitting, saturated af kinda vibe. Vocals are purposefully not super in your face, I’m going for a more m83/full ensemble in a 3D space kind of vibe as opposed to vocals-out-front.
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Damn you nailed it bro. My favorite part is when the Zucker-worm is singing “Bigger man”

Thanks Charissa!!! I’d LOVE to collaborate on something. This choir is actually from an iphone recording of a school in South Africa singing in a courtyard. I pulled a couple clips from different parts of that recording and built a new choir from it. But maybe next time there will be a budget for a custom choir!

HA this is amazing. We just gotta superimpose your face now.

Can’t get enough of the image of you sprinting through the woods to battle a sandworm. Gotta get some photoshop guru to create that (or midjourney?)

And thank you for the kind words! Appreciated the adjustments you recommended, they added some extra intention which really propelled the final moment. Those glissando things are a bunch of…

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nitrous-oxide…..love it. Thanks for the kind words man! I love getting these narrative replies from you, they are a film-like journey in and of themselves! Very much appreciate your feedback and encouragement. I think giving the vocals a bit more sparkle could be a great idea. 🙂

I tucked the drums back into the soundstage, and brought out the choir. I’m vibing with it! Also added some high frequency back into the mix @-PT

Would love to hear yall’s thoughts!

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ooo I like the decapitator suggestion. gonna roll with that

haha I already do that point at the screen and say “I know him” thing every time you pop up.

Thank you for your kind words and encouragement! After sharing this with some other mix folk, everyone seems to agree that the drums are poking out a bit on the dry side. I definitely wanted them to hit you in the face, but I like the suggestion of…

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Hey @-PT thank for this feedback, and charming narrative! haha. Not pompous at all! I hear you on it may be leaning a bit to the darker side of things – will see what can be done to bring a bit of air back into the fold.

Hey Mix Protege fam! I just finished working on a film score, and had my first opportunity to record a live orchestra. Such an awesome experience!

Since then, I’ve gotten a crash course on mixing orchestra and film music in general, and I’m really loving the learning experience.

I’ve included the finale to the film here, and would love…

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this is awesome Dana! Love seeing the 1am upload timestamp….haha.

You are the man. SO informative. Love utilizing Trigger to expedite and blend samples. Implementing into my workflow pronto.

🙏 Gonna hit that Mix Prep School!

Wow thanks @Gage ! So appreciate your words! I’m humbled. Mixing the rest of the record this week!

Thank you sir!

Thank you Charissa! Really appreciate you taking the time to listen and give such encouraging feedback! Love that you went on a journey – that’s my main goal! Will definitely be listening for a bit more vocal level on the next few tracks.

Thanks Dana! So glad you vibed with the clarinet haha – we decided for this ensemble we wanted a flute and clarinet for wind voices, and it was my first time writing for clarinet. Absolutely loved it! Loved it so much that I actually wrote a clarinet intro for the whole record haha.

Great insight too! Definitely played around a lot with…

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Thank you David! I really appreciate you taking the time to listen! Nice to virtually meet you, and hope to see you more in the forums!

Thank you so much Jesse! I’m so encouraged! I hear you on the vocal – we played around with that part, and due to the density of the arrangement there, it was hard to strike the perfect balance. Good observation, and it will definitely be something I look out for on the rest of the songs.

Thanks again man. Really appreciate you taking the time…

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This SLAPS Stuart! Love where you took this piece. This should be proliferating the sync space

Hey MP fam. This is a piece from a collaborative project I’m doing with Bayonne. I took some of his music, deconstructed it to the base elements, then recomposed it back together with an orchestration focus. This is a part of a 5 song release coming out early next year that will be an EP with a symphonic structure.

This is the first single…

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beautiful! And so hypnotic. I’ve listened to it 3 times already. The acoustic sounds so alive and dynamic, and the flugelhorn sounds so breath-filled, serene. Really love this.

Thank you! Working on this record with @shimmerisland was an absolute blast. Can’t wait to share more from it!

Wow @dana ! What an above and beyond response! You’re such a swell guy. Loved hearing that exchange between you and your kiddo too haha. Such great insight on the mix/production, and great advice on A/Bing! Yet another amazing Mix Protege addition to my production routine.

And thanks @JLEW and @detective for some great insight/feedback! Love…

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Thank you so much Jesse! So humbled by your words! Definitely feeling the Mix Protege love right now, and it’s elating 🙂

Been loving the stuff you’ve been posting on IG too! So many beautiful textures/colors.

nah — without the drawing, there’d be no music to shed over. We all have our areas of diligence. Yours needs no introduction!

Musescore has totally changed the game. And the latest update (Musescore 4) is easily some of the best freeware around. Pretty decent (free) downloadable sample library too!

I’ll bet there’d be a decent interest in…

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Nice work! And great penmanship! I usually just go straight to Musescore these days as my transcript penmanship looks like a 4 year old using a living room wall.

Thought exercise this conversation has stimulated – learning the science of mixing has really enhanced my ability as a composer. I feel as if learning the foundations of a good, clear…

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that whole Ten Summoners album is amazing. The chorus progression on “Seven days”…..sheesh. Totally forgot about “Brought to my Senses”! Such a great track. Looks like I’m listening to Sting tonight.

Congrats on transcribing that solo! Not an easy feat (at least not for me. Currently transcribing a bunch of orchestral stuff for an…

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I’ve listened to that album 3 times since you mentioned that track haha

Wow thank man. Means SO much to hear that! I actually used “It’s probably me” by Sting as a reference track for this as I was building it….funny you mentioned him.

Again, so grateful for your input! Can’t wait to share more!

this track is amazing – holy fack. I’m obsessed

Wow @dana I’m flattered! Really appreciate you taking the time to give it a listen, and I’m so encouraged by your positive reaction!! I definitely appreciate the insight about referencing things on the paper weight speakers, and working from the foundation (beat, bass, vocals, piano) up. I was definitely a little lost in the sauce of all…

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This is the first “finished” piece in a collection of music I plan on releasing next year. I’ve been working on this piece for years on and off, so have absolutely no objectivity at this point lol. Would love any feedback. Particularly interested in low-end feedback, and if I’ve properly achieved clarity within all the different elements.…

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