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Dannie Heinzen

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Aug 5, 2024, 1:00:55 PM8/5/24

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Theresources above provide access to hundreds of multitrack sessions at absolutely no cost. As important as it is to have a DAW, a pair of headphones or monitors, and a good set of ears, nobody is a mixing engineer without material to work with!

karaoke-version.com has a ton of multi tracked songs. It costs $2.99 per song. You can mix and match and download as many versions of the song as you wish (drums only, synth and guitar, all tracks minus vocals, etc...). You can even set the levels and panning per track before you download the mix. For mixing practice, you can download each track separately and import into your DAW of choice to mix.

@chisel316 said:

I'll continue to add further projects on a rolling basis, so further contributions are always welcome -- if you're interested in donating something to the library, then just contact me via -mt.com/AboutCMT.htmcontact Cambridge Music Technology .

I posted about this library about six months ago, but since then there've been quite a lot of new developments, so I figured it might be time to post an update. Here's a quick summary of where things are now:There are now more 50 projects listed, covering a wide range of musical styles -- including more than 20 of the songs I've remixed for the 'Mix Rescue' column.Almost all the projects are now provided in full-length versions -- previously most of the projects were only 30-second excerpts on account of web-space restrictions.All of the files are in uncompressed WAV format at 44.1kHz, without any mix processing or effects -- just the raw multitracks, in other words.There are MP3 previews provided alongside each listing so that you can get an idea of what to expect before downloading.The link's the same as before: -mt.com/ms-ch15.htmaudio Library Of Free Multitrack Downloads

Many thanks again to everyone who's contributed to this resource. I'm continuing to add further projects on a rolling basis (so far about five a month), and further contributions/links are always welcome. Have fun with them!

yeah a mix contest would be a right laugh - and a great way for everyone to get some good ideas and tips - just by listening back to everyone elses take on the same song. these multi tracks are the best thing an up and coming sound engineer could ask for. great work.

Thought it was worth posting another update here, because there's been another big increase in the number of multitracks listed -- we're up to about 85 full-length multitrack projects now! The new multitrack projects added include:

love this thread bro. When I get some money I would love to donate, where would I go to donate. I know I can get this stuff off the web but you make it alot easer to find on your webpage, plus you keep updating it, I love it!!! please keep doing this.

What a great idea there. Sounds that good it can't be totally true, please don't take that comment as being offensive, or some type of accusation. I'm still in my first 3 month of owning my first mac system, so I'm still tip toeing everywhere I go with it. So back to your great idea now, if I visit the 'library of multi track mix projects' I'll be able to download file's for PT10 which will be ready for... basically playing with and learning from? No initial cost or anything?

If this is true then I'll catch you later on this week. Mr.BSC

BSCDave, post: 393320 wrote: So back to your great idea now, if I visit the 'library of multi track mix projects' I'll be able to download file's for PT10 which will be ready for... basically playing with and learning from? No initial cost or anything?

That's right. The audio isn't in any Pro Tools-specific file format -- it's just 24-bit/44.1kHz WAV files which can be imported into Pro Tools or indeed any other software/hardware DAW platform you choose.

Does anyone else think that 'run run run' is a meandering vamp of a tune? yeah its cool, and sounds nice. but common' we all know the influences had much more of a message, than this piece.

I claim no superiority, and think its a well done tune, but it's lyrical content is like 'what'? i mean the song tells a vague story, explanation of who i'm running from, what's good w/ babylon? i dunno.

It sounds really nice, but speaks nonsense if you ask me. hmm hhmmm hmmm? i mean there is un-inspring lyrical content. too typical and vague, it's like one long chorus w/ a bridge, i'd work on arrangement/lyrical content far before the mix, which sounds nice.

Criss Michaels, post: 428913, member: 49068 wrote: Just wondering, but do you take submissions for your library? I'd love to hear someone else's take on a few songs I've got laying around...

I just want to point out that we have a little project going on here on RO, we recorded a song and we are at the mixing phase.

Anyone can participate by asking for the stems link in private to me (start a discussion)

And post mixes here : -mix-a-song-together.58614/

The multitrack audio files from these sessions are available for free download via clickable links below the individual performance videos. All audio files are presented in .WAV format and were recorded at 24bit / 48KHz sample rate. They are clearly labeled in the same format with the source listed first (LEAD VOX, ACOUSTIC, PIANO), followed by the microphone used (C12, AR-51, etc) and can be downloaded and imported into your Digital Audio Workstation of choice.

You could also try mixing with the free 10 tracks I released as Ableton Live Templates. I took my whole album, tides of twilight, and packaged up each of my tracks at Live Sets for you to use. You can see how I organize my projects, try out new mixing techniques, and get a taste of what my production style is like.

With this list, you have access to hundreds of tracks to practice with. If you new to mixing and what to level up your skills, try mixing one a day or one a week. Over time your workflow will be fast and your skills lightning speed.

Get a professional sounding mix without having to know a thing about mixing! Simply drag and drop your band, vocal and other audio files onto the corresponding channel strips, set the gain and you'll have a professional sounding mix straight out of the box!

This template comes with Logic Pro X, Pro Tools, and Ableton 10 Standard and above. It also comes with a comprehensive tutorial video showing you how to setup and get the most out of the Mixing Template. Also included is a 5 page Mixing Manual by Phil Blackbourn outlining and explaining mixing subjects like eq, compression, space etc and how to use them to get professional sounding mixes!

I'm a pro musician in a touring cover band duo. I recently took on the role of producing all the audio track backings we use in most of our songs, and I'm using Adobe Audition CS6 to do it. So in my case, I have about 40 songs that my duo partner and I play.. I start with the full backing tracks downloaded in multitrack format from Karaoke Version - so each song has say 15 stereo tracks (drums, bass gt, keyboards, lead vocals etc...). While the recording quality and muso performances were I guess reasonable in most of the tracks, most of the tracks haven't been mixed together all that well. I want to run about 20 songs into each other, to end up with say, a one-hour non-stop track that we can play when we gig.

Bearing in mind that each multitracked song's tracks levels and gains aren't mixed all that well, what order of operations would you suggest I do things in to fix all the track levels etc of these 20 multitracks, so that each song sits perfectly against the next one it runs into? I don't want to be riding faders on the mixer when we perform.

Should I just normalise each individual instrument track to (say) -6Db first? (I need it lower than 0Db, as when we add our live stuff in, we end up peaking). Then once all the individual tracks are normalised to -6Db, just tack the full songs all together in whatever arrangement I want?

The basic principle is quite simple; you need to get all the individual multitrack arrangements balanced the way you'd like first, otherwise the level matching results will be more variable than you'd want. You also need to make sure that the mixdowns are all 32-bit, so the actual level of them doesn't matter (32-bit mixdowns have almost infinite headroom). Then you have to select the 'match volume' window, and drop all the mixdowns into it. Select the loudness contour you want to use (you may need to experiment a bit with these) and then run it - your recordings will then be adjusted to suit that setting.

If the tracks are all fairly similar, I'd initially go for the ITU setting, but it's easy enough to undo what you've done and try another. If you use the ITU setting, then for a mix tape, I'd be inclined to drop the target level to between -15 and -20 LUFS, just to keep the file levels sensible. When you're happy, just save the files. At this point you should be able to do an Open>Append and put them in whatever order you want, and they should flow into each other without any particularly noticeable level shifts. Or, you could dump them all back into another multitrack session and do the same thing there - doesn't matter which.

"you need to get all the individual multitrack arrangements balanced the way you'd like first" - does this mean I need to take the downloaded 15-multitracked instruments (guitars, drums etc) for just one song, and then load that up specifically as a multitrack file, or take them in as 15 separate mp3 files? I'm not great with many aspects of Audition, but I'm sure I'll pick it up quickly. In other words - I have these 20 songs, which are all multitracked in their own folders as downloads.. do I need to balance the gains (or levels??) of only one song at a time - do I do this specifically in an Audition "multitrack"? If so, when done, do I then export it out as something (presumably not a stereo mp3 file cos I need to have multitracks on stage - for musicians who may or may not be playing on the night).. do that to all 20 songs - then re-load them all back in as some kind of finished song format - and then volume match all the songs?