Before you start your mixdown
If you do it separately to arrangement, it's important to have EQ’d your track properly: this is the number one issue I hear in most of what I listen to pre-mixdown. Just one or two bad resonant points can mess up the mixdown, mainly because we try to compensate by making things too loud in the mix. Here are a few things you should watch out for…
Snare Crossover - most people know to be careful of kick crossover, but snare crossover is just as important, not just on the bass but all your other sounds as well. In my experience this is one of the most common reasons for snares being too loud in the mix
Kick, Bass Crossover - even if you have high-passed a pad at 150hz, it might be throwing out more volume at 150hz than you realize, and this applies equally to stabs or any other sound in the mix. Don't just rely on side-chain compression to give your kicks space.
Pad/Synth Crossover - just as important as keeping the bass and percussion clean, a few pads or synths in the same range can ring out massively and destroy your mixdown and compression. Work out which bits of each sound you need, and take out the bits that interfere but don't detract from the overall sound.
Reverb/Delay Tails - again these can ring out and mess things up, so don't over-do it and make good use of hi/low pass filtering to keep things big but clean.
Full Article:
5 steps to improve your mixdown - dnbscene.com
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