Professional mixing is more of an art than a skill, and there are several mistakes that amateurs make that highlight this fact. A lack of contrast and lack of focal point fails to create attention grabbing phrases and doesn’t give the listener an area to pick up on. Also, noisy mixes are a definite trademark of an amateur who fails to notice superfluous parts of a track.
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