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To prevent terminological confusion, within the context of this thread bootleg will refer to using pieces or parts of an original song and adding bits of your own production to it, NOT a remix where you take a stem or acapella and redo the entire song.

Ive been hitting the wall hard with this topic lately, ive been trying variouse things but none seem to work, so i thought i ask. Whenever I produce a bootleg my parts are noticeably not as loud as the original, ive tried couple of things such as "hot mixing" my parts( mixing it up to -1db approx), setting up sidechaines and mastering it in a bus separetly from the original track and also reducing the original track and then mastering it all togehter, however that causes huuuuuuge loses in dynamics.

Question is, how do you mix and master bootlegs?

Mix it as you would any other source instrument.
Chop the original to fit with your rework, remove any clashing frequencies.
Spend time mixing, re-mixing and re-re-mixing the track till it sounds right.

What sort of tracks are you trying to bootleg?

Actually I don't like people call unofficial remixes as bootlegs. Because bootlegs are mainly means unofficially recorded/released concert recordings.