Decide that it’s finished

Putting together music to release is a process. And part of that process is deciding that a song is finished. In order for it to be released, it needs to be finished. That means you need to decide that it’s finished. There’ll always be some other detail you want to tweak or some tiny little thing that you want to turn up or down by only a few dB. Maybe there’s an EQ that you just want to tweak a tiny bit.

Some of these things are things that need to be decided not to do. Decide that it’s done and release it. It’ll never feel done. It’ll sound good, but you’ll always have that thought of “maybe I could learn this better and then edit it.” We don’t want to do that.

Doing that will prevent you from releasing any music ever. I’ve done that too many times; waited to release something until it was just right. And I think that a lot of those details that I waited to change probably wouldn’t have been noticed by many people.

We want to release music. And in order for it to be released, we need it to be finished.

So decide that it’s finished.

ISJ