Listening/ear fatigue: How to avoid

Sep '24 • General

One of the main limiting/annoying factors with music production is, that at some point I can't really hear my production anymore - it's more and more dominated by "what I think it sounds like" - this leads to the situation that sometimes even after not listening to a track for many days I still am not able to realize how unbalanced the instruments are or how boring a section is.

Is this just something one has to power through (I am only doing this music production thing for a bit more than two years now)? I do take frequent breaks and I don't think it's related to acute ear fatigue - but rather my imagination overpowering my ears... Not sure if I make myself clear or if this is even a thing others struggle with :)

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