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Originally posted by thethrillfactor
Nathan,
I understand the outboard since i do this also.
I was actually thinking about the pans,auxes, EQ settings and faders as well.
I guess since you are summing only 8 channels that would be easier, but for a person like me i am normally hitting over 72 channels of information so not having some sort of recall is suicide.
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I'm not summing 8 channels...I'm summing generally 24-36 tracks generally down to 16-20 channels. The other 4-8 channels are reserved for meat and potatoes efx returns. For 'special' efx, I don't mind reaching for the occasional plug-in. We aren't arranging during mix, so it doesn't need to be any more tracks than that....I'm definitely old school in that respect...get all takes down to tape, make definitive decisions. When I said 8 channels of automation, automation derived specifically on the board on a physical analog fader (as opposed to DAW auto). The only reason I would want those is to avoid post automation/post fader compression, otherwise everything could be done in the computer (FUNCTIONALLY speaking, not sonically). Even now with no auto on the analog console, there are workarounds. Things like guitar amps, among many others others, can be automated 'in the box' to stems. I mix on a 24 x 2 console. And I don't think of it as a 24 channel console...it's 12 stereo busses if you get what I mean. Plenty for any kind of rock music. By being stereo stems, that takes care of the panning automation. The Auxes are sent from the DAW also, digitally out to the signal processor, then returned analog, so there's any efx auto there too. I don't even want to think about EQ automation, never have needed it. This is definitely not a traditional system, but I would think a lot of people are mixing this way these days. Sorry if this doesn't make sense, I might not be explaining it clearly, but it works well day in and day out in a commercial setting.