80 20 principle gutiar8/11/2023 ![]() ![]() Get hold of some session files and just mix, build up your creativity muscles. Try to reproduce what you hear, so, if you like a particular reverb effect that has been created in a song, then sit at your DAW and try to figure out how it was done, no hints from YouTube! Pull a few strings, do you know anyone who can get you in on a session? If you're feeling flush, you could invest in some 1-1 training or a premium group coaching session like Mix With The Masters. We can sit and watch the famous engineers on pureMix video tutorials or maybe sit in on real-life audio sessions. Learn from those that already (successfully) do what you do, much like a musician would learn the jazz standards or classical music. If one of your goals is to develop your general mixing skillset, then the following principles might be worth trying in order to discover your 20%… We knew where we were at the beginning and can look at where we ended up to see if what we did, worked out or not. Goal Settingīy setting ourselves goals, we can measure our results easier. This is easier in the business world because they can track numbers but for us, the idea is to try and somehow track our results. We all excel in different areas, so your 20% could be quite different from mine. So How Can We Apply This 80/20 Rule To The Creative Arts? In order for our 20% to work best for us, we need to be very focused, goal-driven and intentional about our current goal or task. If you spend small amounts of time focused on the right things, you can make a significant amount of progress. You regularly only wear 20% of the things in your wardrobe!īut for this article, I’d like to look at it more from a productivity perspective. Perhaps 20% of a band’s tracks are the ones that generate 80% of their streams You know, that kind of thing.Īnd, it often applies to anything we do in life… How can knowing our 20% help us as audio engineers?įor those of you not in the know, The formula goes like this:Ģ0% of our activities give us 80% of our results which, in business, is basically saying that 80% of your sales are coming from 20% of your products, or 80% of your sales are coming from 20% of your salespeople. Out of all the choices we make whilst doing what we do, roughly 80% of them make very little difference to the finished mix. Pareto's Principle or the “80/20 rule” has become well-cited and utilised across many areas of business but can you apply it successfully to mixing, mastering and music production? ![]()
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