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I'll echo The Reverse Engineer program - it's incredible. I've only been in it for 3 weeks, and it's one of the best investments in myself that I've made.

Yep Reverse Enganeer. They don't teach how to spell but you get a great return for the money. So long as you don't want to get a paper cert from a 6 year masters of a very expensive college and wait in line against the fiercest of competition to get a job running coffee for an engineer that will show you stuff after 2 years if you stay that long because you need to pay off a loan.

What I did a while back when getting back into mixing after nearly a ten year hiatus was making an account on fiver and offering (relatively) cheap mixing with the express clause that I'm going to be sharpening my knifes (metaphorically) on the people's mixes who agree to work with me.

I would only take like 1 mix per month/fortnight depending on how much work it needed (rather than trying to pump out tons like if I was doing it for cash). This way I could experiment and practise at the pace I wanted, and because the person is getting cheap mixing, and you've already explained that you are offering it cheap for this very reason, most clients are fine with a bit of a wait if they are told upfront. This isn't a good thing to do once you've got the ball rolling, but to start out, or get back into the swing of it, it's a great way to wet your toes...

....Well, actually this is somewhat more akin to jumping in the deep end of a swimming pool to learn to swim, because you will get sent some really rough projects, but if you wanna get to grips with all the possible problems you can run into in a mix, this is by far the fastest way to come across them all! ;P It also gets you used to talking to and dealing with clients, which is a whole other skillset in it's own right!

Congrats Tim

Nice, Tim, way to go!

Sweet!!!!

Congrats Piotr!

Good skills!

Way to go, Piotr! Next up - go for those Diamond Ears!

Whenever I see this it's hard to imagine ever getting to this point! Well done!

@Nular Music: Yeah, you got it! @Pat: To me, it's about consistency, learning to discriminate more and more nuances... and well, a bit esoteric, but DO imagine being there so that you build the possibility of getting there. And most important: enjoy the way, not only the result. Have fun :-)!

Way to go! An excellent accomplishment!