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Working With Reference Tracks

Match tonal balance and loudness against a commercial reference without copying its flaws.

Choose a reference

  • Pick a released track in the same genre, mastered at a similar loudness to your target platform.
  • In Mix Mentor, upload an authorised file under Your Reference Track for local measured differences. Tonal shape removes overall level differences; reference playback and automatic listening-level matching are not provided there. Genre presets remain illustrative and unvalidated.

Read the delta

  • The band-by-band delta shows where you differ. Chase the shape, not the exact numbers.
  • Ignore deltas under 1 dB — they are inside the noise of arrangement differences.

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