Mixing & Mastering Rant - Before, and Now (Patreon)

Got asked an interesting question that i wanted to share with the class. I definitely went through the same sort of thoughts and confusions coming up so i thought it would be helpful to share a little about the current way i approach about mixing and master.

"The workflow that's been impressed upon me for years is: write the track, export all MIDI to audio, mix with maybe some processing on the mix bus while leaving a good bit of headroom but no limiting or clipping on the mix bus. Then export that as a single track, and finally master it where there might be a bit more processing if needed but that's when the track is sent through a limiter, clipper, or both to get it as loud as possible. From what I gather in your videos, it seems like you're mixing and mastering all at the same time? Like, you already know what your mastering chain will sound like to make it competitively loud, so you mix into that?"