Mixing for Feel is a short book I wrote for music producers and mixers who are done chasing perfection — and ready to chase impact.
It’s not about settings or plugins. It’s about gut instincts, emotional decisions, and trusting your ears more than your meters.
“Perfection seeks approval. Feel seeks connection.”
If that sounds familiar, this book’s for you.
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I used to mix with my eyes.
EQ curves, gain staging, spectrum analyzers—if it looked right, I figured itmust be right. I watched tutorials. I bought the plug-ins. I did the car tests, the AirPods tests, the cheap Bluetooth speaker tests. But no matter how polished things got, something was always missing.
It took me years to realize what it was:
The mix was clean, but it was dead.
There’s one mix I’ll never forget—not because it was perfect, but because it broke every rule and made the room erupt.
The client grinned while his bandmates stood with shocked looks on their faces.
They just stared, then started headbanging—bodies moving, eyes wide, like the track had possessed them.
The vocal was too hot, the kick had no sub, and the stereo spread was uneven.
But it felt real.
Like the song was looking you in the eye and saying:
“This is who I am, whether you like it or not.”
After that, I started listening differently.
I started mixing differently.
Not to “fix” the performance, but to amplify the emotion that was already there. I stopped treating mixing like surgery. It became more like lighting a stage: subtle changes that help the performance shine—but never distract from it.
“The mix isn’t the song. But the mix can kill it—or set it free.”
Modern production has tricked us into chasing perfection.
We quantize everything. Tune every note. Compress until there’s nothing left to say. It’s easy to forget that every record you love—the ones that actually stayed with you—probably had mistakes. Probably had moments where things almost fell apart.
But that’s what makes them human.
That’s what makes them feel like you.
This book is not about rules.
It’s about trust.
It’s about learning to trust the song. Trust your gut. Trust that maybe—just maybe—the thing you’re trying to fix is the thing that actually makes it work.
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