Not really. Not unless they have my DAW (mixing software), and the plugins I use on it. There's a lot more to mixing than just relative levels. It's kind of a b

Not really. Not unless they have my DAW (mixing software), and the plugins I use on it. There's a lot more to mixing than just relative levels. It's kind of a black art that takes years to learn. I've been at it seriously for a decade now, and I feel I'm just beginning to get good (although I've gotten lucky in the past, it wasn't because I really understood what I was doing). Here's an example. I listen critically to a lot of mixes, in order to learn from them, so I hear flaws everywhere. One badly flawed classic song, to my ear, is Al Stewart's "Year of the Cat". It's extremely sibilant on the vocals. Listen to it on bright-sounding headphones, and every S sound in the vocal is shrill and hissy-sounding. Adjusting the level won't fix that. I want to run a de-esser on the vocal. And it's not a knock on the mix in general, which is mostly gorgeous, lush, classic 1970s Abbey Road sound. 98% of it is magic beyond my meager skills. But oh god the sibilance. edit: I should add here that individual tracks, solo'd outside the context of a mix, can sound really weird and wrong - they get manipulated to blend into the whole, not to sound great on their own. For example, I high-pass most guitars at 250-300hz, even though the low E string is way down at 82hz. The reason is to get them out of the bass space, freeing it for the bass guitar/synths and kick drum. So if you solo the guitar, it can sound thin and wrong. But in the mix, you'll never notice the difference - but you'll hear clearer bass.