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Originally Posted by Kiwiburger People who say they struggled with a mix ITB, and then had no trouble with a competely different project OTB are not adding any useful comment. Chances are they would have had the same issues with the same project, regardless. |
I got a total different opinion on that.
Last year I tracked one song for a band, that then was supposed to be mixed at my place. Getting the next day back my mixbus of the console was ****ed up (due to some burnt op amps). No chance to get a technician in time as the deadline was the same evening. So i unplugged all the shit, set up the Avocet from our mastering room, put some APIs and UREIs on the ProTools inserts and went for my first ITB journey.
I felt very good while mixing, sittin in the sweet spot the whole time, inserting outboard with a mouseclick and so on. It took me forever, cause you are so slow with the mouse, when you´re not used to it. But the Mix came out pretty good. Band and Label liked it, and so me and my partner started thinking: "Hey it´s really cool to mix ITB, you got total recall, no or much less repairs. And we can make some good money when we sell the old lady."
Few days later after the technician took care of the console, I wanted to check everything put the same song up and did a quick mix. And then wow. not much tweaking, just faders up, little compression, and everything was ................................
just better.
There was life, depth, better stereo imaging and a much fuller soundscape.
The journey ended exactly there. Till today nobody in our place spoke again about ITB.
my 2c
Achim