[Will Russell]

I teach an advanced audio production course at Ithaca College and when we are in person I have a full class devoted to mixing only with an Artist mix. I have them set up markers so they can navigate and then they blank the monitors and mix the song using only the artist mix. It changes the way they do audio forever because it removes the eye candy and they listen with 100% of their brain for the first time.

I have a D-Command at my studio with only 1 20" monitor and I have set up a "hot corner" so that when I drag to the bottom corner of the screen the screen goes black. Then I mix with my ears the same way I did when I had a console and tape machine.