So I know there are a lot of people who swear by the process of segmenting their music making process into certain stages, i.e. sound designing, writing, arranging, mixing, etc., because to them it is a more efficient way of doing things.
For example, if you are writing music and trying to come up with a new song idea, it wouldn't be an efficient use of your time to try and get the mix sounding super tight as you're writing it because it will mess with your flow/ flow state. That I totally understand.
One of the things I tend to do though is after I have a solid idea down, and I start arranging it, my arranging process ends up kind of getting merged with my mixing process and I seem to do both of those at the same time. Does anybody do the same thing? I feel like throughout the whole writing process, I am intermittently mixing my track and kind of tightening it up as I go along. Not quite sure if it is Resistance in disguise and is actually slowing down my music making process, or if it is just part of my writing style and is kind of who I am as a producer. Could be all of the above!
Let me know if you guys go through something similar to this. Cheers!