thought i'd contribute something i discovered to be helpful that was inspired by a recent deadline of an EP and a liveset booking. I produce but always just DJ when i play out most of the time. like most people when i make tracks i spend a lot of time balancing the levels to make it as perfect as possible for the mix and i always throw the tracks into traktor as a test to see how they mix with other tracks, always do this... So when i was asked to do a liveset (and for me that means playing with the parts and not just the full tracks already done) i was worried about how to control all my levels seamlessly.
So I thought why not incorporate my method of testing in traktor directly into the production process. so what i did, and im sure others have done this, is i matched up a reference track exactly to the timeline in ableton into my project. I then when through each of the tracks in the set and set utility levels so all the channels blend with the reference track perfectly just like a nice dj mix. this even allowed me to test effects i would use live to know how far i could go without sounding out of balance with the commercial track.
this proved to be a fast way of getting good mix levels out of a track or a liveset, kind of takes some of the guess work out of wondering how it will mix with other stuff after you render