5 Reasons Why You Shouldn't Master Your Own Mixes

I'm a big believer in hiring pro mastering engineers to finish your projects. Here's a video making my case.

[lionheartstudios]

hey man love your mixing cheat sheet before I felt like I was just blindly sweeping frequencies looking for sweet spots and I feel like you gave me a little bit of reference as to where I should be looking and in some cases I was already in the right neighbourhood but in others I was way off, I redid my last mix using these as reference points and it really cleaned up my mix thanks a lot and keep the mixing tutorials coming

[austinmohney]

When mixing, should you leave the master track with no effects whatsoever if you plan to give it to an engineer?

[xMiyazakiAkira]

Yeah, but why wouldn't someone be able to practice and improve both of those tasks if they practice both? Joey Sturgis does it, there are plenty of great examples

[tferraro]

I believe this to be a rather poor false equivocation... to say someone who is a 10 at mixing can only be a 4 at mastering is a smug thing to say by a young punk who so far has spent "half" of his career being even more unknown and unproven...

Pompous claptrap!

That is like saying someone who is a 10 at playing piano is a 4 playing the drums...

Idiotic!