Ah Thomas, ah Thomas...
There was a time when Spike Tent was nobody, but was already great in what he was doing, looking for his break. He was lucky he had it come his way.
And a few years from now, you may be talking about the guy who will have mixed bckid's album, just like you talk about Spike right now. You never know.
That's how these things go.
There are a lot of great engineers out there, doing their thing on a daily basis. It's just that not all of them have the luck to have a hit songwriting/production/performance/marketing/x-factor combination coming their way so that they can show to larger masses what their talent can really offer.
They just mix away whatever comes their way, because they have bills to pay. They don't have the luxury to turn down jobs until Madonna knocks on their door.
There's no such thing when you are professional.
Remember that besides all the hits that those hit mixers sport in their discographies -and you read and get fascinated by-, they have even longer piles of albums and songs they never mention, because they just simply flopped.
I suggest you read this again:
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I mean, if you have a label that's ready to toss up money for a proper mix, it's obvious that you have done a great job in producing it already. I suggest you don't blow it in the last step by succumbing to your own "no-one-else-can-know-my-music-better-than-I-do" ego.
They do.
A mixer better than you can in fact open a lot of doors in your music during the mix that you even yourself never knew that they were there. It happened to me.
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We are not saying just "a mixer".
We are saying "a mixer who is better than you and familiar with that particular environment you not familiar with."
Professional results require consistency in rendering professional services, and any professional mixing engineer who meets above criteria and has been mixing consistently on a daily basis for a living, will blow someone like bckid out of the water with his fart.
Read what bckid has been doing in the past how many years.
I'd read it somewhere that said "eventually your experience will catch up with your opinion."
How true.
So will yours eventually, too. But please, don't give people advice that you need yourself in the first place until then. Don't cost people money, time, opportunity and success with false cynical advices while you think you are saving them some.
M.