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Originally Posted by Kenny M  Hmm... interesting concept that I hadn't heard mention of before. I had to actually re-read your post a couple of times before I got it.
While it may produce some favorable results it doesn't seem like it would be a very intuitive process at least not until you had done a lot of different types of mixes through each and every pre setup and built a catalogue in your head about what works best on which instrument/ stem/ style of music, etc. Until that point you're kind of shooting in the dark and could actually take more time checking pre's with stems than actually performing an inspired dynamic mix. Still, I do see the possibilities. |
Right, but if i'm not very experienced in pre's sound, or there is the risk the artist or producer don't like the sounds we choose in the tracking phase, with this "second time" method we could record some instruments with the more neutral pre we have, and then slightly change the instruments sound signature also after we record them (like we do with guitar with the reamping) or made some slightly different mixes to choose from, or bring all our PC project fixed at 95% (raw files and/or premixed final equalized and compressed stems) and mix it analogically in a studio that have more (and/or different) pre's or gears in respect to our pre/gear assortment, and add these sounds too. So we can add the "ultimate flavour touch" in this final section of our work (if we think it could be useful) or use a lot of different gear without buy all the gear rack but only renting it (or the studio that own this gears) only for the time to fix the final OTB mix.
It's a sort of "creative use" of the summing box, instead treat all the stems in the same manner and add only a pre sonic signature, and in the passive case (like the Folcrom) we can made our own DIY "passive summing box" only preparing some cables with 2 resistances mounted into the Jack (or XLR) or behind the patch.
It's only an idea and a new way of working, maybe could be good maybe could be useless, it depends from our way of working.