Mixing is fun!

Apropos of my post a few days ago about starting over on problematic mixes, our friend Susan wrote this back:

Yes. I have to start thinking of a mix as fun. Not something sacred.

And: YES. That’s exactly it!

Even if you’re a beginner — especially if you’re a beginner — it’s so important to encourage a spirit of play in your work. You get to mold sound! How amazing is that?

Go with that feeling; not the feeling of frustration that you haven’t mastered it yet. You’re probably never going to master it. I certainly haven’t, and I hope not to! I didn’t claw my way into my music-making life so that I could have a rote, predictable job; I clawed my way into record production to get away from that.

Beginner mind 4eva — jamie