Why You Can't Finish Your Mixes

How to overcome perfectionism and finish more mixes.

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[jlamarkjr]

I used your mix cheat sheet on drums I recorded and had it tracked, edited, mixed, and sent out to a client all within 4 hours of work. They liked my mix so much, they asked me to export it with all the plugins still on. Thanks for all your help!

[LambertDriveStudios]

Finishing mixes and projects for friends and clients is literally the reason I've had success. FINISH YOUR SHIT PEOPLE, MAKE A DEADLINE AND MOVE ON WHEN YOU HIT IT

[kelvinfunkner]

"have some some courage and commit as you go"...best advice ever.

[RaftelStudios]

I am doing a livestream mixing every Monday 18:00-20:00 EEST.
On that two hours I am pushing myself (live) to finish a mix and most of the time i finish it less than two hours. Things that helped me:
- having a template
- using softube console 1 on every channel on the daw
- top-down mixing
- using autogain stage
- ozone master assistant (always retweak but makes half of the job )

[SashaGarcia]

''Fuzzy targets do not get hit''

That is a powerful statement!

[LordStevie]

Perfection is the enemy of good. I started mixing in the beginning days of Neve’s Necam. I soon learned that it was a double edged sword, it was easy to mix all the life out of the song, trying to make it “perfect”.

[visionswords]

This is all hard hitting truth. Doing weekly YouTube uploads has helped me a lot with this; getting out of revision hell is really important!

[muhsinkartvizit]

why i cant finish my mixes? i delayed clicking this video for 2 days

[slash]

The great thing about deadlines is that they force you to focus on the essentials and then get the shit out the door. I don't work in music but in my job we have the same issue, projects with deadlines get done and projects without deadlines get worked on.

[stockmanager]

This rings very true the songs i've mixed that have the most streams were the quickest to do and had about 3 plugins added.

[Laptops]

As a novice, I give myself 3-4 days to finish a mix. This is with work and family commitments.

[twilightbiscuit]

8:53 collabs really did change my mixing. when you mix/work on your own you can fool yourself into thinking that stuff might be good but another pair of ears would tell you otherwise

[ericrocksguitar]

Thanks, because your videos have played a sizeable role in me going from mixing the same song for over a month, to getting the mix, post-production and master done on a song in two afternoons.

My last mix for a current client took about 6 hours total with 3 very minor notes on the revisions.

[fountane]

A few weeks is insane for a random track.

I did wait a long time once. Did like 10 versions of the same song over a few years. It was for my bands album and we were still writing while I was mixing one of the songs we finished earlier to see where I could get it. And I'm very glad we didn't release any of the versions of that song I did earlier. The last version was definitely the best version. I was doing NTM and practicing all the time and it paid off.

[mengeleto]

For me the most important thing is a knowledge base. If you know how to do exactly and how to achieve you are goals and references, you will not have doubt and you will finish the mix.

[spencerb]

Hey Jordan I know the channel is Hardcore Music Studio but I’d love to see you tackle more genres. I’m not sure if you ever mix anything like singer songwriter or pop but I’m sure your insights would be appreciated as they always are!

[jameslandon]

Another damn good video that I absolutely needed right now. Thank you brother. You guys at BSA are a good incredible. I trust very few, you guys are at the top of the list.

[vitsdavids]

I really wanna say a big thank to you on your tutorial on frequency. It has absolutely given me more information on how to get good mix. In fact it has really gotten me to this ahaa moments with my mix. I don't have much to give in order to show appreciation for such amazing information. I already have clicked the subscribe button for such good turn deserve reciprocity. Thank you.

[Deaflocust]

I finished my first new song in like 12 years and unfortunately Ive been struggling with finishing the mix. There's at least 20 different versions from the past month or so. Yesterday I decided to check out one of the first mixes I did and it sounded so much better!!! Every revision after that got more and more lifeless sounding to the point that the original intensity and emotion of the song has become totally lost. Good thing theres session backups.

[Maedara]

this reminds me of one of my teachers saying part of the job as a producer is being a therapist and i get it now