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Meet Our Spring Mix Contest Winners!
Thanks to everyone who entered the inaugural Vintage King Spring Mix Contest and congratulations to our five winners.
Create a Mix To Win Big
Vintage King is offering mix engineers the opportunity to show off their skills in the studio and potentially bring home a pair of Barefoot Sound Footprint 01 monitors. To enter our Spring Mix Contest, you’ll choose from one of five tracks, create your ideal mix and submit an MP3 to be judged against entries from your peers.
How It Works
We’re teaming up with five masters of engineering and production who will be acting as judges and offering up source files for contestants to work with. Contestants will be able to select the track of the judge they would like to mix or remix and then hit the studio to complete their project. Vintage King’s team of in-house engineers will select the top five entries from each song category and share these with our celebrity judges. Each celebrity judge will listen to the final tracks in their category and select one entry as the grand prize winner.
Win A Pair of Barefoot Sound Footprint 01 Monitors
We will be awarding a pair of Barefoot Sound Footprint 01 Monitors to the engineers whose tracks are selected best overall in each category of the Spring Mix Contest. The Footprint 01 is Barefoot Sound’s most compact monitor, while still featuring the trademark technology that has made the brand a go-to in the studio world. These near-field monitors offer Dual-Force™ technology opposing subwoofers, dual ring radiator tweeter and Multi-Emphasis Monitor Emulation™ technology.
Learn more about the Barefoot Sound Footprint 01
2019 Spring Mix Contest Judges & Winners
Judge/Engineer: Needlz
Song: "You" - Nicole Bus
Genre: R&B / Hip-Hop
Needlz is a hip-hop engineer, producer and multi-instrumentalist who classifies his production style as both dirty and clean at the same time. He has worked on records with Cardi B, Ludacris, 50 Cent, Lupe Fiasco, Bruno Mars and The Lonely Island.
Judge/Engineer: Al Sutton
Song: "Won't Let You Down" - Pale Hollow
Genre: Rock
Al Sutton has been a long-time fixture in the rock genre as he has worked with artists like Kid Rock, Hank Williams Jr., Lynyrd Skynyrd and many more. Most recently, Al was in the engineer and producer’s chair for Greta Van Fleet’s Grammy-winning album, Anthem of the Peaceful Army.
Winner!
Sam Shaw – Astoria, NY
Judge/Engineer: Michael Kolar
Song: "Angels" - Jack Larsen
Genre: Pop
As Founder and Chief Engineer at Soundscape Studios in Chicago, Michael Kolar has experience working in a wide range of genres from hip-hop and rock to gospel and R&B. His talent incubator, Closed Sessions, has been a launching pad for heavy hitters like Chance The Rapper and Vic Mensa.
Judge/Engineer: Matthew Dear
Song: "Can You Rush Them" - Matthew Dear
Genre: Electronic
Since the release of his first single "Hands Up For Detroit," Matthew Dear has been a pillar of the worldwide electronic music scene. As an artist himself, his number of releases are in the double digits, and he has worked on countless remixes for artists like MGMT, Kylie Minogue, The Chemical Brothers and more.
Judge/Engineer: Maxton Waller
Song: "Everything" - Maxton Waller
Genre: Pop/Rock
Maxton Waller is a Los Angeles-based composer who crafts music for television, film and internet-based media. He has written and performed scores for RocketJump: The Show, Stan Lee's Cosmic Crusaders, and SpacePOP, in addition to having songs placed on Sons of Anarchy and Marvel's The Defenders.
Spring Mix Contest Basic Rules
- Only one mix entry per person. If you submit multiple entries, we will select the first one that you submitted.
- The decision whether to create a traditional mix or remix is yours and yours alone. There is no preference or bias towards either style of mix.
- If you decide to do a remix, you must use at least two original source file elements in the final version of your final track.
- The contest is only open to those who live in the Continental United States.
To read the complete contest rules, please click here.