I absolutely love the show Dr. Katz. In what might be my favorite episode, DK has been asked to give a guest lecture as part of an adult education course (to which he is clearly ill prepared for). As Katz starts orally composing his speech, he gets caught up in critically analyzing each word of his opening, until everything sounds completely crazy to him. The same thing, of course, happens in mixing. Once I have completed a project, I can rarely ever listen back without becoming somewhat nauseated. Presumably, this means I have essentially “listened to failure” as they might say in the weight room. In other words, there is a level of saturation that occurs with all art forms, in which a person not only stops experiencing any joy by consuming the product, but the art actually worsens your mood. We have all experienced this with certain pop songs … Continue reading →