One of the oldest and most important tools that a producer has at their disposal is objective feedback. After tweaking a mix for hours and hearing a song so many times that you're practically deaf to it, a fresh set of ears to give advice can be invaluable. We've built a strong community at AUDIOTUTS made up of both audio rookies and veterans, an audience full of fresh ears with bucketloads of knowledge and experience. So we'd like to allow you to post your mixes for workshopping and give you the chance to help others as we've helped you.
That's why we're setting up weekly community mix workshops. You can upload the tracks you'd like feedback on and you can post feedback for others in the comments. It's a symbiotic way of working that helps everyone.
To participate, you fill out the form here and upload your track, and each week we'll pick one of those tracks to feature on the site. By default, tracks will be streamed only, so you don't have to worry about people downloading your rough mixes. On the other hand, if you want to make your mix available for download, we'll make that happen — just let us know your preference using the form.
You will need to ensure that you have distribution rights for all sounds and samples used in the mix.
You can find the form here. It will be great to see the community getting more involved in the learning and teaching that make TUTS sites so useful, and we encourage you to get involved one way or the other.
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( ADD YOURS )Eric Shafer January 16th
Neat concept, hopefully some people participate and start uploading stuff. I’d like to see what kind of talent we have around here.
( )Phil January 16th
Great Idea, just uploaded a track. Hope I get some comments on it.
( )Joshua Bogart January 16th
Well, I just uploaded my first track for public butchery….I mean criticism, I mean analysis……..a track from my band “invo” that will be releasing a 6 song EP soon….just need to finish up the mastering….
( )Gabriel January 16th
I also submitted a track, hope to learn something :]
( )JohnM. January 16th
Where can we hear the songs at?
( )kev on music January 16th
this will benefit us all , thumbs up!
( )Brian January 17th
Awesome… I’ll definitely be posting my mixes from my ongoing Twelve EPs Project (briancasel.com).
Getting constructive feedback from fellow artists and recordists is always a good thing.
( )Eric Shafer January 17th
JohnM: According to the article, songs will be posted weekly for criticism.
( )Joel Falconer January 17th
John, Eric’s right, we’ll choose one song each week (probably Thursdays) and post it on the blog. Then you can all have a go at critiquing it in the comments section.
Of course, just like tutorial submissions, we can’t publish every single song for critique. It would be cool to have some sort of forum or critiquing system one day so we can do as many as we like without taking up days on the blog, but I’m speaking as a reader and not an employee in this case — that may not ever happen.
( )jeffrey james January 30th
This is an awesome idea. It would be sweet if their was enough interest to inspire a whole other blog about mix reviews. another cool idea would be to select someone’s source files (who is willing to “put it out there”) and have readers mix it. kind of a collaborative engineering house.
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