nothing like spending a week like "why does my mix sound garbage in headphones??" then being like "wait why is none of my panning actually panning?" and spending an hour toggling various plugins on groups and masters and sends to see if something is flattening things to mono, only to realize the culprit was the headphones splitter i was using to try and streamline the act of switching between closed back mixing headphones and the in ear monitors i use while recording