Any time I walk into a room that's playing Bar Rescue on TV, I know I won't be leaving for a few hours.

I used to be obsessed with that show.

I'm actually glad I don't have cable at my house because that's all I would watch.

Honestly, I could watch food-related shows all day long...

So whenever I get the opportunity...I binge-watch this show because it's so incredibly entertaining.

The premise is this: Jon Taffer is the "Bar Makeover" guy and he also happens to be a giant asshole.

But...since he's the expert on running bars (?), I guess he can act like that AND get his own TV show.

Fairness in reality TV shows aside, he takes a terribly run bar that has a bad name, bad employees, poor management and no differentiation and turns it around.

It's highly entertaining. The guy is obnoxious to everyone at the start but usually there's some mushy story about some bartender or owner that gets the audience to relate and root for them.

Obviously that all goes over my head because I just think how his approach relates to mixing.

The show basically rethinks the whole concept behind the bar, which got me thinking about how you could rethink your whole process behind your mixing.

If you're stuck in a rut and always doing things the same way with the same results while not really improving, maybe it's time for a Mix Rescue?

Here are a couple ways you can do things differently next time:

• If you always start all faders up, how about you start with the kick and bass instead? This approach teaches you to get a solid rhythmic foundation.
• If you always start with all the drums, how about you use the top-down approach and start with the master fader, moving down into groups and then finally into your individual tracks? This approach makes mixing a little faster and easier.
• If you always work on everything at once, start by listening to the song and then picking out the most important instruments in the mix and emphasize them first. It'll teach you to sculpt everything else around the most important parts of the mix.

Those are just three different approaches you can take when you're stuck in a rut.

All of those approaches work great and I outline each of them in detail inside my Step By Step Mixing System that's guaranteed to take your mixes even further.

If you want to understand the impact each mixing element has on the overall mix...or add the required presence from the various instruments in the mix to help them stand out...

...so that you can get a much more balanced and professional mix when you compare it with commercial tracks, the Step By Step Mixing system is where you go:

Check it out here:

www.StepByStepMixing.com