LOL , I read your reply , then his , then yours again , then wondered the exact same thing . Thanks for the heads up . <| sep |> He will remember that for the rest of his life ! <| sep |> Really ? ? I ' m really sorry if my question contain leaks . I just curious and asked mindlessly . I just edited to add spoiler , but I feel like it kind of late to add it now . Or should I delete it instead ? Also , thank you for telling me . <| sep |> The real question is why wouldn ' t you ? He ' s pretty rare for many still . My favorite Pokemon to show off to people and in gyms is my 2398 Muk . He gets all the dust he needs . I think you know my answer ! <| sep |> I ' m still proud of my first completed track to be honest , which I made about 3 months after screwing around in reason 5 trying to figure things out . It was in the key of C and had literally no sub bass , just a lot of kicks mixed closer to a Metallica song rather than an edm track and would sound terrible on the dance floor , but it was fuckin cool , man . It was about 6 minutes long , and had a really cool intro , great breakdown , suspenseful build , and a crazy everevolving complex drop , followed by a second drop that was so different and interesting it still makes people go WOAH ! . But like I said , it was mixed terribly because I didn ' t know what I was doing , but I obviously knew what I was doing in writing ! I then spent the next two years COMPLETELY obsessing over mixing , putting that first , before writing , and I noticed my songs became a bit less interesting . But they were mixed a lot better ! Mixing and writing are important aspects of our type of music production , and I highly recommend you focus on the writing as much as possible in your beginning stages , and just let your mixing skills build slowly and naturally at first . Master sound design , chord and melody relationships , transitions , breakdowns . Get all that creative Shit down THEN start diving heavily into mixing . Also , if you ' re already at that point , then I don ' t mean to sound condescending . But to finally answer your question , I think it took me about 3 years until I got to the point where I had a mastered track that was filled with both great writing and great mixing that sounded loud and awesome on a loud system .