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datafeist · 9th November 2009

Hi,

I work for the moment totally itb. Now i am looking forward to buy an external eq, compressor, eventide eclipse...but i dont have any mixer (maybe buy a mixer to use all those outboard...or not?)

Now i am wondering...

How you you guys use such kind of stuff (do you play something via midi into your daw and then use the reverb from the outboard gear via midi...Or do you use it on another way) ? Does outboard gear make your sound more vivid than software plugins?

ignatius · 9th November 2009

you don't have to have a mixer. you could just get a nice 1U patchbay and perhaps, depending on your soundcard, could connect the eclipse via the digital i/o.

it depends on how you want to use the outboard.. on individual tracks or just one the whole mix when mixing?

it will give you a different sound but 'better' is subjective and there are a millions opinions on the ITB vs OTB idea.

i do both depending on how the track is sounding or what i want to accomplish.

what do you mean by "suck outboard gear"? or is that a type-o? did you mean "sick outboard gear"? i assume you did?

i like running my mixes through a hardware compressor sometimes and i like the results. i have a handful of decent software compressors i use a lot as well but i find i get the result i ant faster when using a hardware compressor on the whole mix. but that's just me.

it really depends on the song though. sometimes it sounds just right all ITB and so i don't mess w/it. if it ain't broke...

ignatius · 9th November 2009

also, the soundtoys native collection will give you a lot of what the eclipse has to offer and more. though of course isn't going to sound exactly the same. great plug ins though some of my favs... and much cheaper than the eclipse.

SoundToys - Professional Effects Plug-Ins

datafeist · 9th November 2009

I wrote a mistake...i edited the original message

paul999 · 9th November 2009

Ignatius has the right idea IMO. I run a patch bay re-record back into the daw. I find I get the sound I want faster with less mucking around with outboard gear. The only software plug I use anymore is a bit of eq to tweak what I re-recorded into my DAW.

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datafeist Gear addict Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 311 Thread Starter	outboard Hi, I work for the moment totally itb. Now i am looking forward to buy an external eq, compressor, eventide eclipse...but i dont have any mixer (maybe buy a mixer to use all those outboard...or not?) Now i am wondering... How you you guys use such kind of stuff (do you play something via midi into your daw and then use the reverb from the outboard gear via midi...Or do you use it on another way) ? Does outboard gear make your sound more vivid than software plugins?

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9th November 2009	#2
ignatius Lives for gear Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Sasquatch, OR Posts: 4,250	you don't have to have a mixer. you could just get a nice 1U patchbay and perhaps, depending on your soundcard, could connect the eclipse via the digital i/o. it depends on how you want to use the outboard.. on individual tracks or just one the whole mix when mixing? it will give you a different sound but 'better' is subjective and there are a millions opinions on the ITB vs OTB idea. i do both depending on how the track is sounding or what i want to accomplish. what do you mean by "suck outboard gear"? or is that a type-o? did you mean "sick outboard gear"? i assume you did? i like running my mixes through a hardware compressor sometimes and i like the results. i have a handful of decent software compressors i use a lot as well but i find i get the result i ant faster when using a hardware compressor on the whole mix. but that's just me. it really depends on the song though. sometimes it sounds just right all ITB and so i don't mess w/it. if it ain't broke...

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paul999 Lives for gear Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Edmonton AB. Canada Posts: 919	Ignatius has the right idea IMO. I run a patch bay re-record back into the daw. I find I get the sound I want faster with less mucking around with outboard gear. The only software plug I use anymore is a bit of eq to tweak what I re-recorded into my DAW.