I have no real idea. I prepped the arse out of my first couple of mixes recently, but like I’ve said. the mixing wasn’t great, so it probably didn’t matter. The last one was a proper open and shut case. Got the tunes together pretty quickly and to prep 14 or 15 tracks properly hardly takes anytime at all, but takes a lot of the stress out of the actual mix and got from buying, selection, order and then mix really quickly, which massively took the previous tedium of it out of the way
looping the incoming track is my new practice thing. Mixing without a computer is a game changer for me and really love it. Mixing with a computer is basically the same as creating a playlist.