Only change things that need it

If you're anything like me, you're on a perpetual quest to acquire new and better tools for music-making.

In my world, this takes the form of buying plugins. Little bits of cool-sounding code for not too many dollars ... who can resist plugins? They're the mini-muffins of computer audio.

And every so often, I fall in love with a plugin. Like, over-the-moon obsessed. I'm in that place right now, actually. I recently got the Softube 1:1 code port of the Weiss EQ MP, and, I swear, it's probably the closest I'll get to having a religious experience. It sounds so good! So clean!

And, if you're anything like me, your next thought is to think back to the song you just finished, or a song you're currently working on, with this thought now obscuring all others: "I NEED TO REPLACE ALL THE EQS ON THAT SONG WITH THIS NEW, BETTER EQ."

But ... don't do that!

Your new tools do not invalidate your old work.

They merely enable you to do even better work in the future. 

Your old work was great. You did it with intention and you got it to a place where it was doing something that moved you. So let it be.

We gain nothing by obsessively reworking old material. Our best work is always in front of us — we have to believe that — otherwise what's the point?

Forward — jamie