Being productive means reducing the barriers between you and the work you need to do.

Everything that stands between you and the work is friction. If you identify and eliminate those barriers, you increase your productivity.

I'm mixing a lot of songs these days. Since I have to go through so many of them I've devised a system. If you need to do something more than once, then it's better to have a system that makes the task more efficient. 

• I have a system to receive multi-tracks
• I have a system to import multi-tracks into the mix template so all the songs are ready to mix
• I have a mix template that has all of my most common busses, my most used plug-ins and my sends ready to go

I set time aside in the schedule to only do multi-track importing and mix prep so that every song for the week is ready for mixing. That way I can get started right away instead of wasting the first half-hour doing mix prep. 

Then, at the end of the day, I pull up the session for the next song I want to mix tomorrow and shut down the computer. Once I fire up the studio computer the next day, the first thing that opens is my DAW with the song ready to go.

What tasks are you repeating over and over again that can be streamlined through a system?

P.S.

Go this review from a Step By Step Mixing customer recently and I wanted to share it with you:

 "Thank you Bjorgvin for writing this book. I'm just through the EQ and compression sections and the first mix I touched came out great - 3 voices, 3 guitars, bass, piano and 7 drum tracks separated wonderfully, each track perfectly clear and pro-quality. I planned on writing this after a few more days of finishing but I'm already seeing such an improvement I wanted to give my thanks now. Even more important to me is that the information provided is a process which you can use as written, or tweak as needed, but gone are the days of doubt and throwing everything against the wall and hoping something works. Thanks again!"

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