Where's Daddy Likes?? He should get into this with you guys. I'm not touching this one. My experience is no where near you guys'.
Besides, you've already heard my work.

Justin,

How do you attach a file?

Ok, I emailed my mix to Justin, hopfully he well post it. Is that what we're supposed to do Justin? I worked on it for about 2.5 hours. Was going for that far away feel, like the song.

Ok, here it is. I spent about 3 hours on this, went ahead and tuned the vocals. It's unmastered. Ok Nick, lets hear what you can do!

http://www.puresoundstudio.com/farfromhome.mp3

Joe - you say you believe in getting the best mix with the talent provided to you... fair enough... there are varying degrees of talent so what does that have to do with computers? Computers just tools, same as a mixing board, same as analog tape. I can appreciate your situation having to mix quickly in live situations but don't take out frustration by knocking computers and people who mix on them. Whether you participate or not is entirely up to you. If you choose to simply mix the tracks - fine. You know, I'm calling this a competition to be fun but comparing music is like comparing flavors of ice cream - chocolate doesn't beat vanilla - they're both good! Kinda of sad actually how today's reality shows etc. make it so there can be only one winner.

Justin,

I just emailed my mix to you too.

EWF - I didn't get a file from you in my email. To post it here - all you have to do is hit Reply (not Quick Reply) then use the blue File Manager link to attached the MP3 file to your reply.

Jeremy - I must say I'm suprised - I don't mean to hurt your feelings, but it didn't sound good. The vocal tuning was all over the place. Bass and acoustic guitar were too loud. The drums were panned weird. The levels were low. Do you always make your MP3s at 128kbps? This is fine I guess but I generally prefer 192kbps. Oh well.

Here's my mix which I think is better but certainly has flaws we can talk about: FarFromHome.mp3

Well It just says to me that you have problems in your new studio, bad monitoring. Or maybe your just loosing your hearing. This mix sounds head over heals better than any commercial release i've heard of late. Maybe a hearing test in a good idea??

I did this useing my most recent tara lab cables and balanced power. It's very open and transparent. The vocals were tuned perfectly, levels are low BECAUSE IT'S NOT MASTERED !!!

You need to get a life...

Becides, this track is to fucking long anyway. Drums panned weird? What do you expect with a stereo mix of them, can't do a damm thing.

Thanks, Justin. Here's my submission.