Originally Posted by Possible

No no not that. Mixing is hard but very "do"able with a little bit of time. So that should be second in your quest. I am confident with my mixing enough to worry about the conent of my lyrics. Drop like a buck on a decent condensor, grip some software like cubase cool edit etc..and do what comes natural. Your going to find it harder to do whats unatural and approaching things in a not common manner.