Improve Your Music by Analyzing Other Tracks

Yo! So I get asked time to time about mixing and mastering. Here is how I go about referencing other tracks so that I have a solid understanding of how my mixes will compete with others. Later I'll go in-depth about how to achieve loud, competitive, and coherent mixes.

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Plugins shown: Voxengo Span, Ozone 9, Youlean Loudness Meter

Songs Referenced:

Keenan the First - Dinner and a Movie

Aleks James - Fall OFF

Nas / 21 Savage - One Mic, One Gun

Sam Smith feat. Kim Petras - Unholy

Powfu - death bed (coffee for your bed)

Flume / Reo Cragun - Friends

Skrillex / Fred Again.. / Flowdan - Rumble

RÜFÜS DU SOL x What So Not - Inner Bloom

ODESZA / Madelyn Gran - Sun Models

Monte Booker / Ravyn Lenae - Venezuela Trains

Lil Nas X - Old Town Road