#Quality sound reference download

You upload both tracks, one is A, and one is B. You can use plug-ins to help you compare the track to your mix. Listen to it everywhere you can, so you know exactly what to fix when you sit back down at your computer to do revisions. Listen to the track in your car, at your house, on your laptop, on your headphones, in your parents’ car…you get the point. Another thing, you need to know how your reference track translates onto different sound systems. When using a reference track, you want to get the rawest and uncompressed version of the track you can find (WAV file).

#Quality sound reference download

You don’t want to just download your reference track from Youtube and upload that wav file into Pro-Tools. Now, to utilize this correctly, you have to do it right. Once you’ve done that you can hone in on anything that isn’t where it needs to be in your mix- and with a specific goal in mind you can get it where it needs to be because of the reference track. A reference track is helpful to have this happens you can play the track and compare it to where your mix.

Reference tracks are essential because often while mixing, your ears can lose perspective. I want to have options, so when I go to pick a reference track- I am picking one that’s right for the song, and that the band will like too. Then I will ask, “What would you like your reference track for the mixing process to be?” I ask these in two separate questions because what you like and what’s right for a mix of a particular song can be two different things. I ask so I get a good idea of what they might be *subconsciously* looking for in a mix or master. One of the first things I do when I schedule a time to record a band is asking them what albums, and songs they like the sound quality.