8. Make critical mix comparisons
Listening to your mix outside the studio can help you get perspective. Everybody knows the “car test” is a classic method for deciding when a mix is finished.
But there are plenty of other listening environments out there that can give you give insight into your work.
Hearing your own tracks alongside professional mixes is the way to judge how they stack up.
But making these critical comparisons with unmastered tracks isn’t necessarily helpful.
Small differences in loudness can have a surprisingly massive effect on your perception of sound.
And the impact of the mastering process can change things a lot. That makes judging unmastered mixes against commercial tracks like comparing apples to oranges.
Use your LANDR mastered tracks to even the playing field and give you a level-matched, mastered track to reference.