Don’t master your own music
If you can afford a £60 pair of Nike trainers, you can afford to get your music mastered properly. You can honestly spend as little as £30 to get a decent job done and it really does make a difference. I don’t care how good you are, there are very few people out there that can do this perfectly and if you’re one of those, skip this article and get back to being a superstar like you deserve to be. Take a step back, ask yourself does your music sound as good as the competition – if the answer is no – get back to practice.
Malcolm Gladwell’s ‘Outliers’ states that it takes around 10,000 hours of active practice to master something. Now we’re not talking about one track here, but if you’ve been producing for just a month or two – don’t try to put yourself on the global spotlight – you’ll take one step forwards and ten back. If you’re taking this seriously, it’s a career. Don’t try to become the CEO before you’ve worked up the food chain. The world moves fast now with the internet and technology, but you still need to put in thousands of hours of work to become proficient in any discipline.