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Afternoon all,

I’m on the hunt for some mixdowns you really rate - super big and clean tracks I can use as new reference material when mixing.

Nothing too fast as I produce between 85-110 but genre isn’t too important so long as it’s electronic – looking for some mix down gems that I can use as targets for improving my own skills.

I know it's all subjective, keen to hear what people rate when it comes to mixdowns. I have some already but I;ve asked this a feew years back somewhere else and it brought up some absolute corkers!

Some of Disclosure’s tracks sound great, unsurprisingly. Not my style of music, but it sounds great.

Tipper - Broken Soul Jamboree

BT - Binary Uiverse

I usually reference any new material by Audiofly or Tim Green

nothing to add, hopeful regarding gain...

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these are recommended reference tracks by Dave Pensado. in parenthesis is the particular aspect of the track that he likes

Young Buck - Say It To My Face (kick drum)
Natalie Imbruglia - Torn (vocal esses)
Blackstreet - Fix (midrange, apparent level)
No Doubt - Hella Good (snare, midrange)
John Legend - Used to Love U (top end, brightness)
Ne-Yo - Miss Independent (instruments relative to drums)
The Roots - Sacrifice (overall freq)
The Delgados - Witness (overall)
Mariah Carey - My All (vocal eq)

Into The Lair #5 - All About Reference Mixes!

Some good ones here already, cheers

I'm just a hack with cloth ears (in fact, the left is down to 10% hearing), but-

Groove armada - black light
Bonobo -black sands

Both sound pretty well produced to me.

Any more hints on style?

The material that gets released is pretty heavy hip hop - fast and party orientated (a weird mix of funky leads and big horn samples mixed with filthy D&B style tear-out synths).

I've had some compliments on mix downs, but I think they're terrible and I want to start releasing some less busy but still very dancefloor orientated tracks. This means every element needs to be totally spot on. I think a lot of errors have been masked previously by how busy of some of my tracks have been.

Some time whethered terms I would say would be so seek out the crisp, polished clarity that the tops producers achieve whilst still retaining the grit and distortion that the sounds I tend to lean towards will always deliver.

On a side note, I think I put too much distortion on my lower mids so this stemming this will probably help a lot already