The Final Listen: 5 Minutes To A Better Mix III
Part 31 of 31 - Part 31 of 31 - How do you know when your mix is finished? Great question. This final tip will help answer that for you.
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E+P: Any last minute words of advice for the next generation or engineers and producers? Things you wish you would have been told when you started out?
The best advice I can give has already been said by Ira Glass in this quote:
Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap.
For the first couple of years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you.
A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have.
And if you are just starting out or you are still in that phase, you gotta know it’s normal and the most important thing you can do is a lot of work. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close the gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions.
Interview by Mark Liebrand
for Engineers & Producers
training that focuses on what's important: simplicity, good arranging, intuition, and basic audio concepts. There's too much emphasis put on gear these days. I'm trying to actually help people make better music the real way, by getting better at their craft!
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