It's a well known tip that if you turn off your screen while mixing you can hear a whole bunch of things that your eyes can trick you into missing (mix with your ears not your eyes). So here's my tip for blanking out your screen without having to turn it on and off all the time.
These instructions are for Windows 7 but you should be able to come up with the same sort of thing for just about any system.
All I've done is create a taskbar shourtcut that opens a blank screen saver. I click on the shortcut and the screen goes black. Move the mouse and it goes way.
For Windows 7 make a desktop shortcut that points to:
C:\Windows\explorer.exe C:\Windows\System32\scrnsave.scr
You can then drag and drop this on the taskbar so you can get to it easily from your daw.
These instructions are for Windows 7 but you should be able to come up with the same sort of thing for just about any system.
All I've done is create a taskbar shourtcut that opens a blank screen saver. I click on the shortcut and the screen goes black. Move the mouse and it goes way.
For Windows 7 make a desktop shortcut that points to:
C:\Windows\explorer.exe C:\Windows\System32\scrnsave.scr
You can then drag and drop this on the taskbar so you can get to it easily from your daw.