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Originally Posted by jerome_oneil
That right there was the hardest thing for me. I think at heart we are all gear-heads to one degree or another. You have to abandon that and come to understand that what you are doing when you are mixing is to a large degree making up for failures in the original recording.
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It is but there are far too many distractions and temptations out there to get this across well. It's the hardest thing to get good at and every single one of us will do everything we can to avoid that salient truth. It's like pulling teeth these days to get anyone to listen to this but to be fair, I didn't listen either as I used to lay awake in bed longing for the days I had EQs on every channel, only to have them and realize, they weren't the magic I thought they were. They were a godsend at improving a problem but they were never as good as not having the problem to begin with - we'll never get it perfect so there will always be eq'ing going on, but that isn't the point.
That is not directed at the OP, it's just a long-standing matter of fact.