[Dean Roddey]

The trick, whether digital or analog, is to record stuff that sounds right to begin with and it's not a problem nowever you mix. What 'sounds right' in digital may mean warmer, more rolled off top end, more saturation etc... on the way in because the recording medium isn't going to do that for you.

But if you are doing lots of processing to make it sound right, no matter how you recorded it, most likely the problem is in the recording process, not the mixing process. I realize that, if you are a pro mixer that's a lot easier said than done since you don't control the recording process necessarily. But if you do have that luxury, put your efforts there and it will pay off far more than what you are doing now.

In my opinion of course....