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Casey,
Concerning your "Reverse-mixing" approach to tracking in PT...OK, stop me if you've heard this already, but...
When I was researching PT before jumping in to actually use it, I had found that some peeps were doing this, but for another reason: In the pre-HD systems (TDM), less fader movements = cleaner audio.
They were advocating pretty much what you described: Recording into the system at the approximate levels desired, and leaving the faders at unity as much as possible. They found they got cleaner mixes this way, because the "old math" in the pre-HD TDM systems tended to truncate the audio a bit when the faders got moved too much. Perhaps subtly, even imperceptibly on one solo'd track; but all of those slightly truncated tracks were going into the stereo mix buss...and there it is...THAT SOUND! That friggin' gotdamned PT sound.
It makes me wonder if the issues peeps have had with the PT mix buss actually had anything to do with the mix buss itself.
I'm gonna stop there and await a response to this before I go any farther, and my foot goes so far into my mouth that it starts blocking my breathing passages.
Any thoughts?
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