Any tips on the best approach to steadily enhance mix/master skills through actual practice, as a producer?
I'm wondering if anyone has any suggestions as to how I could best optimize my approach and mindset towards mixing and mastering, from the basis of being a music producer. I'm reasonably experienced, but I think in terms of dedicated mastering knowledge, I'm still amateur.
I've realized that one of the main values of music production is the manual craft itself, and learning skills purely for the sake of my own progression. I don't really think this is a matter of going and learning specific technical knowledge from books, but I may be wrong.
My inclination is that the best approach is to learn as I go about producing my tracks, learning through the process of finishing the work itself. However I'm aware that in some sense this is a bit open ended, and could leave me not really developing any skills, even with consistent output. Maybe I'm just wondering if anyone has any suggestions as to what a good approach would be in regards to keeping yourself open to new insights, as I work on the craft itself.
My genres are mainly electronic music based, but also interested in metal, and rap.