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Hey Hakim. I was in the same boat as you. My rough mixes ALWAYS sounded better than when I actually sat down to mix the song for 2 reasons in my opinion:
1. When I first started to mix, I would do more damage than good while EQ'ing (because I really didn't know what I was doing).
2. My room wasn't very well treated at the time with bass traps so I would take away a lot of the punch thinking I was taking away mud from most of the tracks.
At the end of many sessions I would think, "That's exactly how I want this track to sound! Nice and open!" But then I would listen to it through a different set of speakers, or listen to a pro mix and be like damn, my mix sounds super flat!
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