It's like I'll watch a mixing tutorial on YouTube and be like 'yeah! I understand this, what a great technique' then I'll watch the next one and it'll be contradicting the previous one and I'm like 'crap, what the hell am I doing?' ... For example, one video was talking about using hi pass filters to carve out frequencies so everything sits better in your mix. Awesome. The next one was about how using hi pass filters change the phase of your signal and can mess everything up. The next one was about how carving frequency, surgical eq, etc is a b. S. And you can achieve a balanced mix just by recording a clean signal, getting good gain staging, panning and some light, broad eq and compression moves. It can get confusing. No question here, really. Just venting.