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theblue1 · 3rd June 2005

I wonder if perhaps your purposes might be best served by seperating the submixes so as to provide the most 'room' for each set of potentially competing high frequency instruments, perhaps.

Using the same criteria that one might weigh in finding room for different instruments in a mix, you could assign outs to minimize conflicting demands of, say, acoustic guitars competing with acoustic pianos.

If the worry is that digital summing 'inter-munges' the sounds it is summing, then let the analog mixer do the critical work of blending textures like drum cymbals, acoustic guitars, acoustic pianos, and/or vocals.

Since all four of your submix signal chains will be nearly identical and feature no processing, you can assign instruments to outputs strictly based on these considerations.

3rd June 2005	#2
theblue1 Gear Guru Joined: Mar 2005 Location: Long Beach, CA Posts: 15,085	I wonder if perhaps your purposes might be best served by seperating the submixes so as to provide the most 'room' for each set of potentially competing high frequency instruments, perhaps. Using the same criteria that one might weigh in finding room for different instruments in a mix, you could assign outs to minimize conflicting demands of, say, acoustic guitars competing with acoustic pianos. If the worry is that digital summing 'inter-munges' the sounds it is summing, then let the analog mixer do the critical work of blending textures like drum cymbals, acoustic guitars, acoustic pianos, and/or vocals. Since all four of your submix signal chains will be nearly identical and feature no processing, you can assign instruments to outputs strictly based on these considerations.