Sometimes we have to screw up to learn. One time I screwed up was around the early 2000s. I was working on an album called Vertigo, by Groove Armada. At the same time, I mastered a song called Sweet Like Chocolate, which was the number one record at the time, too. They were pressing quite a lot of these, and I was mastering both of them on the same day. They happened to be in the same room, and I put the sticker for Sweet Like Chocolate on the Groove Armada Vertigo album. They were in a rush to get...

From my experience in the music industry, I've worked out why some people are successful and why you're not, and what you need to do to change that. And I believe that you just need to stick to one thing. You have to define that one purpose and that should drive everything that you do. Now and then I get Shiny Object Syndrome, where I'm like "I want to try doing that, and I want to be successful at that. They're making loads of money, so why not?" It's relatively common for people to be blind to the grind and...

I think when people start in music, they think that they can join mixing and mastering together. They can’t. They are two different mindsets, where the former is all about balancing the track while the latter is concerned on how to make it sound like a finished track. I don’t recommend being a mix mastering engineer. If you are, you’re splitting your time across two things, and you’re only going to be able to charge up to a certain amount of money for your work. After all, the kind of clients you’re dealing with then will be fairly low-endish people...