Compare and contrast

Yesterday we talked about resetting a problematic mix to zero and starting again. An extremely healthy practice!

And now here’s a next-level version of that practice.

Before you reset your mix to zero and wipe all the plugins and start again, do two things. One, save a session file of the sucky mix, and two, make a bounce of it.

“But Jamie, why on earth would I make a bounce of a mix I hate?”

Because, in a day or so, after you’ve reset everything and started again and made a mix that you think you like much better, you can pull up the bounce of the mix you hated and compare it to your new version!

One of two things will happen. Most of the time, your decision to reset and try again will be richly rewarded — the new mix will be clearly better, and you will have the comparative evidence to prove it.

And, every so often, you will hit play on the old mix and realize that actually it had something special about it! And, if that’s the case, you still have a session file saved for it, and you’ve lost nothing.

FYI, the second of those two things happened to me just last week, with my mix of Forever Young. How grateful was I to have a pre-experimentation session file? Extremely.

Always making safety copies — jamie