Anyone need a 12 step program?

Harmony-Central.com has an article called “Mixing: The 12-Step Program” that I thought was a great resource.  It was written for studio musicians, but there’s a lot of helpful tips that apply to the live church environment as well.  It starts with a great introduction:

In theory, mixing should be easy: you just adjust the knobs until everything sounds great. But this doesn’t happen by accident. Mixing is as difficult to master as playing a musical instrument

It’s been a long time since I’ve posted, but not because I haven’t thought about it.  In fact, I’ve been composing in my head a post about how being the sound guy requires a lot of the same skills and talents as being a musician.  After all, even though you’re not playing the instruments, you make the decision as to which instruments get heard and which ones are lost in the background.  It’s nice to know someone reaffirms my opinion that learning to mix is like mastering an instrument in itself.