just a random tip out of nowhere for the new guys:
stop soloing tracks so much when mixing, ESPECIALLY when eqing. generally, the only time you really need to do so is if you've noticed something shytty in your kick drum//horn/vocal/whatever and you have to narrow it down frequency-wise. then go ahead, solo it, isolate it and get rid of it. otherwise, you have to remember, the aim is to make each track/instrument/sound work together. you can't do that treating each thing as a separate part from each other.
like what good does soloing your lead synth do, making it sound super thick and full and amazing, taking up the whole spectrum and shyt...what good does is it when you put when you have to put it in the context of the whole beat/song? 99.9% of the time, it fukks the whole thing up. cuz now that sound is fighting with your drums...your pads, your vocals, whatever else is happening. nothing will sound perfect on it's own. in fact, a lot of things will sound straight up shytty soloed when you do it right, especially when layering.
point being, it could be the lead synth, the big snare, the awesome background vocals, whatever...just mix it so it works with the whole song instead of worrying so much about how it sounds on it's when standing on it's own.
