My dedicated Suggestions For Newbies page. If you’re new to mixing, you can find some beginner-friendly projects on In both cases a preview mix is provided for easy auditioning while browsing through the list. ( Download problems?) In addition to the Full Multitrack packages, there are also many quick-download Edited Excerpt versions (usually featuring the song’s biggest chorus) which provide ‘bite-sized’ mixing assignments well-suited to classroom use.

When importing the tracks, just make sure all the files start at exactly the same moment in time within your DAW’s timeline. For maximum mixdown flexibility, the contributors have made every effort to provide audio ‘raw’, in other words without additional effects or processing (beyond treatments printed during tracking/editing). All these projects are presented as ZIP archives containing uncompressed WAV files (24-bit or 16-bit resolution and 44.1kHz sample rate).

To support readers of my book Mixing Secrets For The Small Studio, as well as music-technology students/educators in general, here’s a list of multitrack projects which can be freely downloaded for mixing practice purposes.

Download non copyrighted rock music