Nothing wrong with writing down the workflow for a newly acquired skill. It becomes habit with practice and until it is habit, better to learn correctly by following a checklist.
I’d say keep at it.
One tip where mastering is concerned. Don’t try to master your own tracks. Not a good plan. Try to find someone that will do the mastering for you, perhaps another producer/dj. You could offer to return the favor by mastering his/her tracks.
It’s common practice in the sound engineering field that the engineer that does the mix down is not the same one that does the mastering. If you hear a track a lot of times, you are already biased by the time it needs to me mastered. And someone that gets a new track to master will listen to it the first time with a “mastering ear”. Can’t do that if you have been working on the track for days or even weeks.
Greetinx,
C.
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