Producing music requires persistence along with creativity. We may hear a few popular tracks from an artist who has produced their music at home, but we will never hear the hundreds or thousands of tracks that were never finished or brought to the mastering studio. Artists have the difficult task of being creative and fresh, while being able to understand the technical side of their work. But even the best producer will eventually send his songs off to a mastering engineer to improve their work before it is mixed down into a digital file. Why would such a skilled artist go through the hassle of letting someone else alter their work?
The reason is that not every creative person has an engineering mindset and the opposite is also true. You can be veteran DAW users, perhaps you know what almost every function does in Ableton – but this doesn’t …
