The jury listened to, analysed and compared all your mixes and remixes (anonymously, of course), until it was finally settled who would receive this year’s prizes for the best mix and the best remix of the contest song “Blue Silent Night”.
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 so much 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!
Winter nights are long, and you can finally find more time for making and producing music. Why not combine the pleasant with the beautiful? Take part in the world’s most Christmassy mixing contest – and if your mix sounds like a real treat, you can even win amazing prizes! For the 17th time in a row, we are organising this HOFA CONTEST – for all those who enjoy festive studio work.
Download all tracks of the contest song now and create your mix or remix. Participation is free of charge and great prizes are waiting for you again!
The 17th HOFA XMAS MIX CONTEST is starting soon!
Here you can find some insights into the production of this year’s contest song ‘Blue Silent Night’, which, as always, was written and produced by HOFA CEO Jochen Sachse.
Starting on December 1st, you can download all tracks of the song and mix or remix them. Great prizes are waiting for you again!
Main Prizes
Category: Mix – €1,500 prize money
The winner of this year’s Xmas Mix Contest impresses with a powerful yet finely balanced mix. The entry sets new standards and is convincing across the board, particularly in terms of dynamics, transparency, depth and attention to sonic detail.
Congratulations to Ramm Darkened!
Category: Remix – €1,500 prize money
The top prize in the remix category goes to an entry that impresses with its creative originality and modern sound design. Innovative arrangements, exciting timbres and coherent dramaturgy give the song a completely new, rousing identity without losing the character of the original.
Congratulations to A.sch3!
Audience Awards
1st place Public Voting, Category: Mix – Sennheiser HD 300 PRO
This submission by ferran melero received the most votes in the Mix category and therefore wins the Audience Award! Congratulations!
1st place Public Voting, Category: Remix – Sennheiser HD 300 PRO
This submission by G. Major received the most votes in the Remix category and therefore wins the Audience Award! Congratulations!
Special Prizes
Congratulations to the special prize winners:| Category | Special Prize | Awardees | Link |
| Mix | Steinberg Cubase Pro 15 + Steinberg Absolute 6 | apollo13audio | play › |
| Mix | Fender x Teufel ROCKSTER NEO Bluetooth speaker | Nikolai | play › |
| Mix | ADAM Audio T7V pair of monitors + Sonarworks SoundID Reference for Speakers & Headphones | tomburgelman | play › |
| Mix | Beyerdynamic M 160 microphone | Maks Faggioni | play › |
| Mix | Celemony Melodyne 5 Studio | Andrey Benassi | play › |
| Mix | EVE Audio SC203 pair of monitors | elvitos | play › |
| Mix | Shure SM7dB studio microphone | OInTA | play › |
| Mix | FL Studio All Plugins Edition | Artigian | play › |
| Mix | Sennheiser MK 4 Studio Set | Anton Bilgeri | play › |
| Mix | Shure MV7i microphone | VintageAnalog2026 | play › |
| Mix | Toontrack Superior Drummer 3 | DennisBastioni | play › |
| Mix | Toontrack Superior Drummer 3 | Andrejs Sadkovojs | play › |
| Mix | Native Instruments Kontakt 8 | rxbin | play › |
| Mix | Lewitt CONNECT 2 audio interface | Julien Meirone | play › |
| Mix | Yamaha URX22C audio interface | prod.nom | play › |
| Mix | ADAM Audio H200 studio headphones | Benjamin Müller | play › |
| Remix | Neumann TLM 103 Studio Set | DeLion_T. | play › |
| Remix | Native Instruments Komplete 15 Ultimate | Ariel Alves | play › |
| Remix | SPL Phonitor One d | Paul12345 | play › |
| Remix | Yamaha HS 7 pair of monitors + Sonarworks SoundID Reference for Speakers & Headphones | GIOLI | play › |
| Remix | Arturia V Collection 11 Pro | it.is.oaky | play › |
| Remix | Ableton Live 12 Suite | BENADEM | play › |
| Remix | Korg microKORG2 synthesizer | Tonic Smasher | play › |
| Remix | iZotope Ozone 12 Advanced | feelin | play › |
| Remix | FL Studio All Plugins Edition | Hansa | play › |
| Remix | Beyerdynamic M 88 microphone | KlangBild | play › |
| Remix | Spectrasonics Omnisphere 3 | dubSlicer | play › |
| Remix | Lewitt RAY autofocus microphone | leof | play › |
| Remix | Arturia V Collection 11 Intro + Arturia Analog Lab Pro | Marco Herbert | play › |
| Remix | Native Instruments Kontakt 8 | Jardim Asli | play › |
| Remix | Native Instruments Kontakt 8 | Teggo | play › |
| Remix | Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 audio interface | oHalo | play › |
| Remix | Novation Launchkey Mini 37 MK4 | John Consalvo | play › |
The song “Blue Silent Night”
Crossover, alternative and pop-rock influences characterise this year’s contest song, “Blue Silent Night”. An outstanding female lead vocalist, heavy drums, atmospheric keys, massive guitars and a thick bass are waiting for you to turn them into a convincing mix or remix. It’s fun and it’s worth it 🙂
As always, the contest song was written and produced by HOFA CEO Jochen Sachse.
This is the music video of the XMAS MIX CONTEST Song:
Win over €27,000 in cash and prizes!
This year there will be prize money of €1,500 twice – for the best mix and for the best remix of our contest song – and two Sennheiser HD 300 PRO headphones as audience awards.
There are also attractive special prizes from Ableton, ADAM Audio, Arturia, beyerdynamic, Celemony, EVE Audio, Focusrite, Image-Line, iZotope, Korg, Lewitt, Native Instruments, Neumann, Novation, Sennheiser, Shure, Sonarworks, Spectrasonics, SPL, Steinberg, Teufel, Toontrack, Yamaha and HOFA.
Download the tracks
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, 2026.
Audio engineering tutorials for the mix contest
To help you mix and master the contest song, we’re creating a series of videos that we’ll publish here over time. Be sure to check back regularly! 🙂
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Insights into the production of the contest song
[Oct 6th] Bass recording with Simon Erzinger
Simon Erzinger from the HOFA-College team recorded the bass tracks today in control room B with Jochen Sachse. Afterwards, we filmed footage for the music video.
[Sep 24th] Vocal & guitar video shoot with Jochen Sachse
Today we recorded some scenes for the music video of the contest song ‘Blue Silent Night’. The focus was on Jochen’s guitar and vocal recordings.
[Aug 25th] Vocal recordings with Kolinda Brozovic
Fantastic takes for the contest song: this week, we’ve been recording vocals with singer Kolinda Brozovic (Mousse T., Sascha, etc.) in the HOFA-Studios.
[Apr 27th] Drum recordings with Noah Matteo
The drumming for this year’s HOFA XMAS song was done by our warehouse logistics manager Noah Matteo, who is also a drum teacher and plays in several bands. Song producer and HOFA CEO Jochen Sachse and senior audio engineer Jochen Weyer were in charge of the recordings.
All kinds of microphones were used – from the classic Shure SM57 on the snare to MS room miking with two Flea 12.
[Mar 1st] Preparations for the 17th XMAS MIX CONTEST
This year, there will once again be a HOFA XMAS MIX CONTEST, where you can mix or remix our contest song and win great prizes. As always, the contest song will be written and produced by HOFA CEO Jochen Sachse.
Soon the first recordings for ‘Blue Silent Night’ will take place – we keep you up to date…
6 Responses
Hallo! Was für eine Freude, diesen Titel zu entdecken! Vielen Dank für das vorgezogene Geschenk! Die Aufnahmen sind voller Energie und Konzentration. Großartige Arbeit … wunderschöne Komposition. Danke!
Hello friends, I’m a singer, songwriter, composer, and music producer from Peru (South America), and I’m very happy to participate in the remix and mixing contest. Now I’ll be able to test my talent by comparing my work with that of other international contestants. Congratulations on this initiative, and best regards.
Good morning, I downloaded the multitrack of the song, but I can’t find the hi-hat track in the downloaded files, which I see is included in the drum recording tutorial videos. The hi-hat part is very important in the song. Was it removed intentionally, or is it a mistake? Thanks.
Hey Massimo! Thank you for your comment and well spotted 🙂 The hi-hat is loud enough on the overhead track, so the hi-hat support microphone is not needed for the mix. Consequently, we did not include it in the download folder in order to keep the number of tracks as clear as possible. Have fun mixing and best regards!
ok I’ll try to do without… thanks
Hi everybody.
Good idea, this mixing contest. I will wait the end to listen the other’s music result ..
best regards