When seeing the arrangement from the FTM challenge tonight, I really wondered how the producer/artists managed to get this far creatively without doing any of the work that Jake did. How can you make all these creative choices with such a poor picture of how the song will sound like? How can you come up with extra layers, when after you have added those layers, they just sound so bad? How does the artist go, "yeah I'll keep that in" when it doesn't actually sound good? Is it because they are good at seeing the potential of that layer? Another theory I have is that the artist actually did process a lot on the tracks to the best of his ability, and this is his result before sending it to a professional?
This is probably my biggest hurdle right now, as I am highly intertwining the creative process with mixing/mastering, constantly going back and forth between the two, because I find it hard to produce when the stuff I already recorded doesn't sound like I want it to. My workflow is all over the place!
Hope anyone of you has some advice on this subject! 🙏
Edit: No offense to Reub. It's composed and produced very well and way above my level. The track is pretty lit actually.