I'm writing this email in bed next to a three-year
old with a fever.
I've been trying to prescribe her more cowbell for hours but all she wants to do is watch Clifford the Big Red Dog.
Live footage of me trying to take care of my sick child...(I'm the one in the back).
She looks exhausted and sad, which is a similar feeling to how you might feel about your mixes sometimes.
If you’re like most of my
subscribers, you're sitting on songs begging to be released.
You'd love to see them released, of course.
But you're sick of your mixes falling flat every time you try to finish your songs.
Compared to pro mixes, your mixes sound:
Muddy
Cluttered
Quiet
So you jump from one thing to another and waste time demoing plug-ins instead of finishing songs.
No matter what plug-ins you use to chase that elusive perfect sound in your head, your mixes sound horrible, and you just feel incredibly frustrated trying to figure out the best way to finish.
And when you play your mix outside the studio, it feels like a bloated mess that you can’t wait to turn off because you feel embarrassed by your skills.
So, you stop trusting your instincts.
In the end, you waste so much time mixing that it becomes a huge hassle that sucks all the fun out of making music.
But instead of feeling depressed and sick about it and lying in bed all day like a toddler with a fever, how about you do something about it?