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A good way to illustrate the summing issue...is the Piano...I recently recorded a piano and then used a library cause the piano was noisy... on single notes the Library shone...If I was judging it in parts I would pick the LIB....every key was meticulously recorded...but when you put the keys together on the real piano somthing happened inside of it that didn't happen with the model. Piano stays library goes......
I think the same thing is happening in the world of mixing.....we can model and convolve a compressor or EQ or pre amp to various degrees of similarity .... but we have yet to make a musical sounding mixing "engine" for our DAWs....The modern daw engine is clean clinical bt not musical, and I think it will be quite some time before this gets adressed. Besides...I shudder when I think abou how old the mix engine is in protools or logic. Sure I got all these new hot plugins that sound great on there own....put em together and well its just not right. Where is the weakest link in audio right now? We have the sum of the parts but not the whole......
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