C U Next Time (Since everyone was making a fuzz over "CLA")

[dcp10200]

Relax brother no one has to go anywhere.
All you are being asked is to be nicer when you tell someone their mix is crap

No harm in that and no need to get hostile with Mike. He's already done his part by supplying all these multitracks for free. Honestly what coming engineers need is a bankload of files to practice with. There is no teacher you can learn from 100%
You learn to mix by trial and error.

Let's all just relax and move on from these.

Exactly, you can say a mix sounds like crap, but at least give the person who uploaded some pointers on how they can improve their mix. Mike also has a day job of being a reporter, he can't spend all of his time here commenting on every single mix that comes through.

The forum is about learning from each other and showcasing what you're working on, not starting petty shouting matches back and forth at each other because of differences of opinion on how a mix should sound. This track in perticular is a tough mix because of the quality of the raw tracks, however as Mike said on the Nova-One Studio track, it's "not atypical of a lot of band-produced small-studio rock recordings". It's possible to get this track to sound good, you just need to put some time into cleaning up the tracks.

Just my .02 cents, take it for what it is