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Originally Posted by ep1c0ne  Now, from what I understand you could think of working in most software (except Mixbus and Record) as completely neutral and uncolored. What is pleasing to the ear about analog summing is the low level harmonic distortion from analog, not the actual summing per say. |
I'm not going to try and explain the analog summing mystery--not in the last place because I'm not yet entirely sure what the crux is myself--but I would bet an arm and a leg that yes, the subtle harmonic distortion that it introduces is part of what makes it sound so "magical".
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Decapitator and Preamp are both analog saturation emulations so I'm guessing that putting one on each channel would emulate mixing through a console?
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I can't speak for Soundtoys but yes, that is one of the possible uses that we had in mind for Redline Preamp. If you drive it hard at extreme settings it can do nasty grunge too, but at most settings it will "only" introduce some subtle analogue-style harmonics distortion and thereby mimic, among others and depending on its settings, a console channel.
Putting an instance on each channel shd sound very similar to mixing on a console, as we tested during development and as some users (and upcoming reviews) will attest. That's one of the reasons we worked hard to keep CPU load as low as possible: so you can insert a lot of instances all at the same time.
$.02,
-- dj!