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Originally Posted by Kenny M  For me, I think that while there are differences between the pre's, I'm not sure any particular one offers much over the other that couldn't be compensated for while mixing.
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I think that the differences are very little (it appaers noticeable to me the "low end fillings" of "7" into the break starts at 0:52) and in some cases could be very hard to choose a pre instead another one.
The main differences are (obviously) between pre's sonic signature, so if i have many different pre's to choose from and i want to make an OTB sum i probably act in a different manner.
I could apply a different pre (setted into unity gain) to each stem output of my DAW, and put each pre's output to the relative Folcrom input.
So i start to assign the stem (and/or premix of stems) to the DAW output connected at the pre i want to use on this stem.
So if (for example, in relation to Infernal Device comments) the "7" is beautiful for voice i could assign some (or all) the voices stems to him, if the "8" is good for the guitar i could assign the guitar stem to him, the drums could transite into the "1" without squashing the rest of the mix etc etc, and some stems could transit directly from DAW to final reamp (through Folcrom) because i think it's not necessary to process them furtherly.
So i could use each pre's signature for his best, i could exclude from any reprocessing all the sounds are already ok, and i could freely reassign a stem to a different pre if i notice at the end that the "X" signature is not good but the "Y" signature it's better for this specific song.
I could also divide a sound between two different stems (and pre's path) to obtain a balance between the flavours of the different pre's and try all the combination i want and finally save them into my mix session project, so the mix of the "digital recall" + "analog processing" could represent an exceptional hybrid.
The final "make up" gain i have to choose should be the more transparent and "aseptic" as possible because each pre's apply their own signature to my mix before, and finally i have to recover only the loss of gain without adding further treatment.