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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.
Load it in Reference Mode — comparisons are loudness-matched automatically.

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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