What you do is more important than how
much you do.
Doing the wrong thing repeatedly might feel productive, especially if you don't know that you're doing the wrong thing.
But if you know the right thing to do, you can save 95% of your time.
How you phrase your goals also affects their effectiveness.
For instance, "mixing more" VS. "mixing more songs."
You can achieve the first goal by tweaking your snare drum EQ until you're ready for retirement, but you haven't actually accomplished ANYTHING.
Mixing more songs, on the other hand, gives you tangible results.
If you're just "mixing" without finishing your mixes, you're just wasting time making yourself feel productive.
An even better goal than "mixing more songs" is to "make each mix sound better than the last."
Now you have a comparison point for improvement.
All of this is
for nothing though, if you don't have songs to mix.
That's where gold mines like the Cambridge Multi-Track Library come in to help you practice.
And since you need to mix a lot of songs in order to get better, the faster you can finish your mixes, the faster you will
improve.
Tweaking workflow, creating processes, and improving the systems you have in place in your home studio, whether you’re working for yourself or others, will result in a huge increase in the amount of music you’ll create.
That's where the Easy Mix Approach comes
in.
If you want to get to the point where you load up a multi-track and know exactly what you need to transform your recordings into finished mixes, the Easy Mix Approach will help you templatize your workflow so that you can get there faster.
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check it out.