[Insomniaclown]

I have been working and learning this ITB business for awhile now, and I think its time I give something a try. It seems that with everytime I work on one of my tracks, I keep throwing more and more plugs at it to make it sound good. Well, not this time!

I am going to start by limiting the amount of plugs I will make available for use. 1 channelstrip, 2 EQ's, 2 compressors, 1 noise gate, 1 stereo and 1 mono delay, and one reverb. I am also going to heavily limit how much processing goes on individual tracks, and try to automate tracks instead of just reaching for that compressor to limit the dynamic range.

On the 2 buss, I am going to mix into a buss compressor and a limiter. The only EQing I am going to allow myself on the 2 buss are high and low pass filters.

I am also going to not use a lot of the modern conveniences afforded to me by my DAW. There will be no strip silence, normalizing, quick swipe comping, pitch shifting, or any other destructive editing. If its not right, I am going to re track it.

Any other ideas of ways I can bring some old school techniques in the box? Besides working OTB that is.