29/01/2025
What are the potential benefits of having different people mix and master separate tracks on an album, compared to one person doing all of them?
That depends on the engineer, but ideally this should be done by 2 separate people just because it’s always good to have a second pair of ears doing the final touch. Another thing is that if you’re both mixing and mastering, it is difficult to separate the two processes. You’ll find yourself going back to the mix again and again to correct things you notice in the mastering process, and therefore need to master again to compensate for the changes you did in the mix. It’s far better to have an engineer mix it as good as possible, then a second engineer put the final touches on the mix in the mastering process.
Having said that, I both mix and master my own stuff, simply because I cannot afford having someone do it for me 🙂 I try to be disciplined about it, and do the following:
* Mix it as well as I can, and bounce it out to a stereo track
* Leave the song completely alone for a couple of weeks, don’t even listen to it
* Create a new session with the stereo track, and do the mastering (if I do the mastering in the original multi-track mix, it’s far too easy to start tweaking the mix again)
C: Vidar Tornes
https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-potential-benefits-of-having-different-people-mix-and-master-separate-tracks-on-an-album-compared-to-one-person-doing-all-of-them?top_ans=131581127
