“The only thing that matters is what comes out of the speakers.”  – Andrew Scheps

That phrase; it’s so liberating and painful at the same time. Liberating because it seem to democratize the craft. “Best mix wins,” whether it was done in Cubase, Pro Tools, Logic, Abelton Live, any DAW. Best mix wins, whether or not you bought that crazy expensive plugin. Best mix wins, even if you used parallel compression on the drums, and the other mix didn’t. Best mix wins, even if you sent the song to the client and wrote pages of notes on all the crazy shit you did, the only thing that matters is what comes out of the speakers.

Mixing engineering Mixedbyali said that Dr. Dre once told him, “It doesn’t matter what gear you have, it only matters who’s turning the knobs.”