Im moving away from simply doing everything in the box and have purchased a vintage DBX 160X which shall hopefully arrive here today or tomorrow.
Right now I am compressing totally in the box (pro tools), once lightly on a bus on the way in and then once in the mix.
With hardware now, I dont know how I should approach it. Should I compress once with the 160x lightly on the way in and then ITB while mixing? Should I compress hard just using the 160x and not compress using plugins anymore?
I of course want to get as much out of the 160x as I can, but adjusting from ITB to hardware is a learning process again, and I am just trying to think outside "the box."
