I ran across this quote recently:

"To be good, it's helpful to be willing, or even enthusiastic, about being bad." - Daniel Coyle

It encapsulates a lot of things about learning audio.

When I started out in audio I knew nothing about EQ. I was enthusiastically bad at EQ'ing and loved twisting the knobs of my Allen & Heath mixer until the drums started sounding better.

I knew nothing about audio but running sound made me feel just as alive as I felt onstage so I didn't care whether I was bad at it.

But there's a a difference between being "enthusiastically bad" and "stupidly incompetent."

One is endearing because you should throw yourself into something you love. But your love for something should, sooner or later, make you want to devour everything on the subject.

That's why, once I learned a little bit about EQ through intuition I didn't just stay enthusiastic about being bad.

No, I swapped bad with improvement. If you decide to stay in the status quo and refuse to improve you don't learn get to keep being "enthusiastic about being bad." You change into being "willing to be incompetent."

And nobody likes hiring an incompetent.

So if you're still twiddling thumbs and moving EQ lines around without improvement I made the process simpler for you with my Ultimate Guide to EQ.

Don't stay stupid in the status quo and start improving your EQ skills right here:

www.EQStrategies.net