Mike Senior, the author of Mixing Secrets For The Small Studio, has recently created a resource with over 50 free multitracks available for mixing practice.
I recently noticed that there’s a shortage of freely downloadable multitrack projects on the net for people to use for mixing practice. Yes, I’ve seen the NineInchNails/Radiohead multitracks, the Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix files, the Real World downloads, and various other well-publicised sources of multitrack projects, but I’ve noticed that the files usually suffer from one of three problems: they’re actually processed/effected stems, which means you can’t properly work from scratch; they’re low-quality or data-compressed audio, which doesn’t respond well to further processing; they’re actually ‘remix packs’, in other words chunks of the multitrack which can’t properly be reassembled into a time-line; you can’t tell what the song sounds like before you download it.
So I decided to do something about it, and over the past few months I’ve been building up an online library of more than 50 downloadable multitrack projects in a variety of different musical styles. These are provided as simple ZIP archives containing unprocessed WAV files at 24-bit/44.1kHz resolution, and there’s an MP3 preview for each so that you can quickly browse through to find something that suits your tastes. And everything is free to download and use for mixing-practice purposes.
The multitracks are available for free download via Cambridge Music Technology.
Links
Download Free Multitracks: click here
Mixing Secrets For The Home Studio: click here
