Probably the most reliable way to waste your time in a small studio is by trying to mix before you can actually hear what you’re doing. Without dependable information about what’s happening to your audio, you’re basically flying blind, and that can get messy. In the first instance, you’ll face a frustratingly uphill struggle to get a mix that sounds good in your own studio, and then you’ll invariably find that some of your hard-won mixes simply collapse on other playback systems, so that you’re left unsure whether any of the techniques you’ve learned along the way are actually worth a brass farthing. You’ll be back to square one, but with less hair.
Relevant advice from professional engineers is perhaps unsurprisingly ...
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