I'm reading this really fun book on cooking called Cooking for Geeks.

It's a nerdy, scientific take on how to cook, filled with really interesting tidbits about food from a science perspective.

The book makes a lot of sense because cooking is really a combination of art and science.

The reason I like it is because the same thing goes for music production.

The music is all about the art of the song, while the production is all about the science of engineering.

Put them together and you get this great balance of art and science that we love so much.

I realized the similarities between cooking and music production when I came across this passage:

"Good cooking is very much about balance. One of the most important corrections you can make is to adjust the balance of tastes and smells to where you think the dish tastes ideal. Lean in and smell the dish. Take a taste. Then ask yourself: what would make this dish better? Does it need more salt? If it's dull or flat, would adding a sour note (lemon or lime juice) add some brightness?"

If the similarities don't click for you yet, let me rewrite the paragraph from a music production perspective:

"Mixing is very much about balance. One of the most important corrections you can make is to adjust the balance of tracks using EQ to where you think the mix sounds ideal. Listen to the mix. Try it on different monitors. Then ask yourself: what would make this mix better? Does it need more effects? If it's dull or flat, would adding an EQ boosts (high-mid presence boost or high-shelving air increase) add some brightness?"

That's almost the same paragraph but the topic has changed completely!

Just like there are essential skills to cooking, there are essential skills to make great mixes. You don't have to know everything about cooking to be a great chef, nor do you have to use every single plug-in they sell on the internet to make great mixes.

You just need the right workflow to make better mixes in less time. That's actually what I try to teach you in my Quick Mixing tutorial.

Learning to mix quickly is incredibly important today. Customers needs great results fast and time is money.

I actually started my audio journey with mixing live sound but I've since progressed into studio mixing and producing.

The first few years of live sound mixing taught me one thing really well:

How to make great split-second mixing decisions on the fly that made the audience love the band on stage.

If you've ever done live sound you know that if a band sounds good they all compliment the musicians, but if they sound bad then it's you, the live sound engineer, that gets the blame.

My goal was to never get blamed for the shitty band on stage. So I learned to make every band sound great, however bad their performance was!

Since then I've translated these fast-paced mixing decisions into the studio. Mixing quickly is incredibly important to me because it lets me finish more mixes in less time, meaning I can have more clients and make more money. If you charge a flat rate for your mixes you'll basically have a higher hourly rate and make more money as a result.  

This fast and efficient workflow is what you'll learn inside Quick Mixing. You’re with me every second of the way as I mix a song all the way through. You'll learn to crank out great mixes fast and efficiently.

Best of all, I stop every 10 minutes throughout the video to tell you exactly what’s on my mind and what I’m trying to accomplish. It's like sitting next to a professional mixing engineer at work and getting to see all the tips and techniques in action.

Whether that’s balancing kick drum tracks to get the best of the boom and the beater, making each instrument fit in the mix with EQ, going through every compressor style to find the right punch or using amp simulators, reverb and delay to add depth to the song I make sure to stop and walk you through every step of the way.

Join me as I show you all the ways you can save time while mixing, and discover a solid mixing workflow from beginning to end.

Wouldn't you rather know exactly what you should do every minute of the mix instead of worrying about whether you're wasting precious time? Wouldn't it be easier if you could make split-second decisions to improve your mix in a fast and efficient way?

What if you could sit next to somebody like that? Somebody that tells you how they're balancing and separating all the instruments in the mix, why they're EQ'ing those frequencies, which compressor model they like the most on each track and what kind of reverb they like to use to blend it all together? And at the same time you're learning a fast and effective workflow to mix more songs in less time.

If you could sit next to somebody while they mix and they tell you both their technical mixing shortcuts and their mental workflow to mix​ faster, would you take take a seat?

If you said yes, then come join me inside Quick Mixing right here: