Musical Telepathy?

Rick Beato recently interviewed Mike Elizondo, and they got to talking about sending mixes to other people for their opinion. My favorite point came when Rick asked him, in reference to Mike sending mixes to Dr. Dre, 'Once you decide to do that, can't you just kind of get in his head and figure out what he's going to like and not like?' Mike agreed completely. This is something I've talked about here before. If you're in a band, for instance, and you're going to send something to the other members, and you know them well, you can pretty much predict what they're going to say. You could have listened to that mix a thousand times, and you're still going to be able to make changes in reference to sending it to them that you wouldn't have made before. Then you make those changes, and then you send it. I was doing this with Daphne Falls tracks, where I'm responsible for the drums and percussion, the bass, and kind of the synth lines. I always put myself in the mindset of, okay, I'm sending…