Ok I recovered Dan's mixes and unbolded the names to keep the complainers happy. Nobody wins, err, well at least not yet. Somebody will win when the contest ends. And I'm still working on a prize to be announced for the winner.

Joe - yes the contest is to create the best sounding mix you can with the tracks provided. But everything is fair game - you can rearrange, autotune, add new tracks, exclude tracks, the sky's the limit. It's great that you like working in a live environment - hat's off. If choose not to autotune because you feel it's not a good process, by all means don't. Lots of people do and that's OK too.

Here's a question about autotuning. You wouldn't stop a guitar player from tuning their guitar with an electronic tuner before tracking would you? So why stop a vocalist from intonating their voice with computer technology after the fact? Is it really a question of altering their performance or simply making something good a little better. You're not against comping (editing together the best of multiple takes) are you? People were doing this long before computers came around by splicing tape with a razor. And what about bands that overdub, autotune etc. who listen back to their own recordings and actually DO learn to perform them better as a result? Lots of people use recording as a way to compose. What exactly is wrong with that?