It’s more practical to rent someones knowledge and experience for a small fee, than fuss with it for hours, days, or in some cases even years! Focus The same is true with with a musician that’s outsourcing their mixing and mastering. The engineer will make the studio some money and help keep them in business and the studio will continue to thrive. Why, you ask? Well what good does it do someone to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars or even millions on going into business as a recording studio, when they can rent it from someone else that already has it? An engineer can move to any city and go right to work because someone has already done the work on starting up the studio. Many professional engineers don’t own a recording studio. Whatever your release schedule is, outsourcing your mixing and mastering will let you work on the release and marketing plan and focus on the important business aspects of the job. Outsourcing is a major time savor on many projects. “Why should I clutter up my mind with general knowledge for the purpose of being able to answer questions, when I have men around me who can supply any knowledge I require?” Practicality He called those people his Master Mind Group, and is cited as saying, Henry Ford was known to have a row of buttons on his desk that by pushing the right one he can summon someone that had all the knowledge he could need about the business he devoted most of his time to. There are a lot of people that understand this simple yet fundamental flaw in humanity that we simply can not know everything. I’m aware I probably could learn to play the flute, but it would take me a lot of time to be able to play well enough to finish the project. If I wanted to to have a killer flute or violin solo on my song, the last thing that would come to mind is, “I need to learn to play the flute.” I can play the guitar and I’m a solid keyboard player, but I know the limits to my ability. The rest of us are just trying to make our way through the world just like everybody else. There’s a small percentage of people where that most certainty applies, but for a lot of people that’s not the case. It’s so common today that everyone is a, “Singer/Songwriter, Multi-Instrumentalist, Producer, DJ, Mixing and Mastering Engineer, Record Label Owner, A&R, Entrepreneur, Philanthropist, Author, Humanitarian, Mother/Father of 3, and leading innovator under 30.”
I won’t go as far as saying that it isn’t possible, but like a good friend of mine said before, “People overestimate what they can get done in a day, but they underestimate what they can get done in a year.” I wanted to go into depth with this one because it’s apparent that in today’s industry everyone wants to be a master at everything. Why 90% of Musicians Outsource Their Mixing and Mastering
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