Welcome to "The Music Creators Club" where we will certainly learn more than we walked in the door with. I've been a student of Khaliq for about 11 or 12 years. The information that I have received from him has proven to be invaluable. His ability to articulate what needs to be done in a mix is not just average. To me, the greatest thing I cherish to this day is his ability to make you think. You ask a question looking for an answer and he gives it to you by making you think, not about the problem but the solution. He ask, why do you want to do this this way or have you thought about it another way. You see what I learned from him is there is no right way to mix or engineer. Each mix has it's own set of issues, and therefore you cannot use the cookie cutter effect. Get to know all of your tools, IE your DAW and Plugins effectively much like a surgen knowing what tool to use in different surgeries. Have patience with yourself, as great song takes time to develope. Be willing to make a mistake and not beat yourself up, and then start over from scratch if need be. Most of all is to listen, listen, and listen some more. Listen to identify what the song needs. Is it too crowed or does it have a sonic hook. Does it need a better rhythm or does it have what he calls the grove to make you move. All this and more you can learn from
if we just listen to not only his musical wisdom but the life wisdom he brings to us as well. He not only change the way I look at a mix, but how I perceive life as well. We all have a great oppertunity to learn from one of the greats. Let's be humble and do just that. My final thing is this, remember because he is great at what he does, he will be in high demand form the industry from time to time. This means he will not always be availible to us as much as he or us would like. Know this , his heart is of pure gold and he will never leave us just hanging out there for know reason. Love to all my fellow "Music Creators" !!!