“I just need to practice”

I ran across this quote yesterday when I was looking through some of the feedback readers sent me recently.

I asked this person what the hardest part of mixing was.

After going through the typical issues of muddines, EQ, compression and the like this golden nugget just popped out:

“I just need to practice”

Well ain’t THAT the truth!

Isn’t that’s what it really boils down to?

Knowledge < Experience

You could know every single mixing trick in the book but if you don’t apply them regularly through practice and hard work nothing’s gonna happen.

You won’t improve.

Sure, you’ll be smarter. You’ll be filled with in-depth knowledge of mixing secrets.

But applying them?

Not so much.

I’m a huge advocate of reading as much about audio and music as possible but reading is only one part of the process. Practice is when you take that knowledge and create something out of it.

But I also understand that it’s hard to practice when you don’t have enough music to work on. We talked about this last week on how you can work on the same tracks over and over again with different results.

But it’ll get boring fast.

That’s why I’m happy to promote something like Dueling Mixes.

It’s a community that not only gives you new multi-tracks to work on every month but also helps you solve all of those super frustrating mixing problems you have like EQ, compression, muddiness etc.

The hardest part about mixing is making sure all the instruments fit together in the mix.

And that’s exactly what they teach you, month after month, genre after genre, song after song.

Click here to take a look.

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