Turns out mixing brings up all kinds of questions, and some answers too. It's kind of like Philosophy 101...
What is an accident or a mistake? Is it, as Brian Eno tells it, a secret or hidden intention?
When is less more, and when is more more? Should you turn this instrument up? Or should you turn everything else down? What is perfection? Is it a chimera? Is it attainable? And if so, is perfection actually lifeless?
Do the "mistakes" or imperfections actually make a recording unique? And beautiful?
Just because we have lots of studio tricks and effects, should we really use them? Is it happenstance or fate that we used this guitar, this pickup, this kit, this bass? How did we find ourselves in a room together?
Can we capture the magic of the moment and preserve it forever? Or at least until the technology fades away and falls to ashes? If we can re-do a mix over and over, when is it officially done?
Is it all just madness? Why do we love to do it?!
