The jury listened to, analysed and compared more than 800 contest entries (anonymously, of course) until it was finally settled who would win this year’s prizes for the best mix and the best remix of the contest song “Bloody Christmas”.
Once again, you didn’t make it easy for us – but in the end we managed to choose the different winners of the main and special prizes.
We would also like to thank all the other participants who spent a lot of time and used their creativity to make this year’s contest so exciting and interesting.
You can be sure – this was not the last XMAS MIX CONTEST!
The festive season is approaching, it is often cold and dark outside, and you feel like mixing a well-tempered Christmas song again and winning yummy prizes.
For the 15th time now, we’re celebrating the XMAS MIX CONTEST – for everyone who enjoys feastful studio work.
Find more information on the rules and timeline on the contest platform.
Main Prizes
Category: Mix – €1,000 prize money
Our winner in the Mix category convinced us with a professional sound, featuring harmonic levels, a balanced frequency image and controlled dynamics.
Congratulations to Ramm Darkened!
Category: Remix – €1,000 prize money
The winner in the remix category combines elements of folk, blues and indie pop to create a harmonious, very atmospheric sound with many creative details and a great reharmonization.
Congratulations to Splitter Guy!
Audience Awards
1st Place Public Voting, Category: Mix – beyerdynamic DT 900 PRO X
This submission by emmer received the most votes in the Mix category and therefore wins the Audience Award! Congratulations!
1st Place Public Voting, Category: Remix – beyerdynamic DT 900 PRO X
This submission by NoiseKey received the most votes in the Remix category and therefore wins the Audience Award! Congratulations!
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Special Prizes
Congratulations to the special prize winners:Category | Special Prize | Awardees | Link |
Remix | Adam Audio A4V pair of monitors | RS007 | play |
Remix | Toontrack Superior Drummer 3 + SDX Stories + SDX Hitmaker | Jardim Asli | play |
Mix | SPL Phonitor One D | Nuno NBdrums | play |
Mix | Teufel ROCKSTER AIR 2 | Nature Studios | play |
Mix | Celemony Melodyne 5 Studio | PGstudio | play |
Remix | KORG Keystage 49 | Royal Sound Mastering | play |
Mix | KOMPLETE 14 Standard | Andrey Benassi | play |
Remix | Ableton Live Suite | Stephan Suckow | play |
Mix | iZotope Music Production Suite 6 | Christoph_K | play |
Remix | iZotope RX 10 + Ozone 11 | SimonB | play |
Mix | SHURE SM7dB | apollo13audio | play |
Remix | Neumann NDH 20 headphones | LazerTape84 | play |
Remix | Soundtoys 5 Bundle | MaDproF | play |
Mix | beyerdynamic M 88 | Antonio Pannese | play |
Remix | FL Studio All Plugins Edition | getitrealguy | play |
Remix | Spectrasonics Omnisphere | PR Music | play |
Mix | Novation Circuit Rhythm | POP Rares Vlad | play |
Mix | Avid Pro Tools Studio (Annual Licence) | KLLSWTCH studio | play |
Remix | Sennheiser MK 4 | ayoona bay | play |
Mix | Lewitt LCT 440 | artuesquivelr | play |
Remix | Focusrite Scarlett 4i4 | von freitag | play |
Mix | Sonarworks SoundID Reference incl. measurement mic | Krysd0ve | play |
Remix | beyerdynamic M 90 PRO X microphone | Miguel e Strack | play |
Mix | Sonarworks SoundID Reference | Adrina | play |
Remix | FL Studio Producer Edition | Babak | play |
Mix | SHURE SM57 | slartfast | play |
The song “Bloody Christmas”
This year’s contest song “Bloody Christmas” combines acoustic guitars with heavy drums, spherical keyboards and three-part vocals. The drum set for the song was recorded in our largest warehouse for acoustic modules.
As always, the contest song was written and produced by HOFA CEO Jochen Sachse – and this time, all the musicians are from the HOFA team, too.
This is the music video of the XMAS MIX CONTEST Song:
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Audio engineering tutorials for the Mix Contest
To help you mix and master the contest song, we have produced some videos. A new tutorial is added here every week. It’s worth checking in from time to time 🙂
Win over €22,000 in cash and prizes!
This year there will be prize money of €1,000 twice – for the best mix and for the best remix of our contest song – and two beyerdynamic DT 900 PRO X headphones as audience awards.
There are also attractive special prizes from Ableton, ADAM Audio, Avid, beyerdynamic, Celemony, Focusrite, Image-Line, iZotope, Korg, Lewitt, Native Instruments, Neumann, Novation, Sennheiser, Shure, Sonarworks, Soundtoys, Spectrasonics, SPL, Teufel, Toontrack and HOFA.
Download
Please enter your email address and press “submit” in order to reveal the link to the download page.
Upload
Upload your finished mix/remix to hofa-contest.com. You can also listen to submissions of the other participants there.
Closing date is Jan 31, 2024.
2 Responses
What a great opportunity to win so many different amazing prizes! This is going to be a fun experience! Good luck everyone!
Thanks for the opportunity HOFA! Happy 2024 everyone!