After an unbelievable year it was time to give something back, so we created THE BENZTOWN Xmas Contest 2011 with unbelievable prizes: A skype Q & A with imaging legend David Konsky, Adobe Audition and PPM strategy expert Mike Santos, composing with Oli from Benztown, an unbelievable Imaging FX package for free, a copy of BrainDead Creative, your personal guide through the radio world and your own blog post, where you can share your skills and audio – I promote you to thousands!
Every contestant sent in his best piece of the year. We wanted to give the young guns a chance. Check the selected audio files below and vote for your favorite.
1. Ian Mc Loughlin: Ian from Ireland sent in this Beatmatched element. He sure learned the Adobe Audition beatmixing skills from his mentor Paul Duffy
2. Phil Manzor: Phil sent in this top 100 tracks of 2011 promo, he did for his station SPIN South West
SPIN South West – Zoo Top 100 Tracks by prodspinsw
3. Brionne Olsen: Brionne created this piece for his station Jacaranda 74.2
4. Adam Venton: It’s getting scary! Adam sent in this Trick Or Treat feature he created for UKRD Group
5. Andrew Choiniere: Andrew might be no stranger to our readers. Here’s his promo.
6. Anthony Pena: Anthony sent this piece right from the Dominican Republic.
7. Eban Sylvain Dusart: Eban created this stunning branding for his station and he’s sharing it with us.
Power Intro – Lady Gaga – Marry The Night by W26 Prod
8. Gavan Bruderer: Multi DAW user and young aspiring imaging talent Gavan sent us this piece.
Now it’s YOUR choice! Choose your favorite in the poll below. You have time until Friday, December 23rd, Midnight PST. Share it with your friends and get as much vote for you and your piece.
Thanks to all our contestants and good luck.
Nice work Guys!
Roy
Big fan of Adams, think its got a lot of depth and creates the atmosphere brilliant, has loadsa layers!
I agree… I like it too!
Well done boys! Good luck!
Raul
genius, nice one.
U Rock Brionne!
I really like Andrew’s piece. Great use of the song samples. Especially in the “Glad You Came” piece of the promo. Great job everyone. Glad to be apart of this group
Adam has some mad skills, great effort by all but this piece is head & shoulders above the rest
Brionne you rock dude and you are amazing,
It got close at the end, but nonetheless really fun!! Thank you for the opportunity Benztown!!
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