Is it worth using my OTB gear for summing?

[nickknack]

You could get away with not summing at all with all that gear.

Nice front end , plus outboard, into back end should equal decent signal to noise ratio, less loss of transients and mojo.

There are some other threads on here about ITB and OTB and summing in general.

Cheers

[MarkyGoldstein]

You really have to try.. output 16 tracks, process some, then sum them again into a summing mixer. It's a well established way of working..

[chrisso]

You need a passive summing mixer and a patch bay.
I mix like this all the time and it's really just a case of inserting 4 to 8 cables in my patch bay (connecting micpre's and compressor) and assigning the outs in my DAW.

[cavern]

I hate to state the obvious here but your the only one who can decide if its worth it.
Does it sound better?Do you have the time to mess with it?Does it even matter for your material?
Either way,it will take time and practice to know what your doing with all that gear and great monitors to be able to tell the difference.
I have found that for "ME" its not worth it.