USING A SUMMING BOX

AMIEL · 8th November 2006, 02:30 PM

Hi! I want to know your method using a summing box.

When u mix:

Do u monitor your mix through the summing box since the beggining of the Mix? o Do you use the summing box after you mixed in the box? more like post audio enhancer.

when you record:
do u monitor and use the summing box?

Thanks!

Arsene · 8th November 2006, 06:21 PM

I was using a summing box at some point but found that it wasn't that big of a difference, let alone an improvement.

I assume you're recording & mixing in digital, so what you're basically doing is sending the already converted digital signal back into the analog world, where it can pick up some more noise, and then back through conversion - which chops some life out of it - in to the digital box.

So you're converting TWICE; unless you're recording at 96 or 192k with Apogee stuff or better, it doesn't make much sense to me to do it this way!

Anyway! To asnwer your question: I had the summing buss permanently hooked up so, yes, I was monitoring through that all the time, during recording & mixing.

But as I said, since I'm still recording @ 24/48, using the converters in my Emu 1212m, it was really only complicating things.

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8th November 2006, 02:30 PM	#1
AMIEL Lives for gear Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Miami, Fl Posts: 2,351	USING A SUMMING BOX Hi! I want to know your method using a summing box. When u mix: Do u monitor your mix through the summing box since the beggining of the Mix? o Do you use the summing box after you mixed in the box? more like post audio enhancer. when you record: do u monitor and use the summing box? Thanks! __________________ Peace. Reuven Amiel. Focal Monitors ? PM me "There are no rules, just knowledge, good taste and experimentation" "Music was designed to escape from reality for a moment, not to magnify our fears and problems"

8th November 2006, 06:21 PM	#2
Arsene Gear addict Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Rotterdam, NL Posts: 307	I was using a summing box at some point but found that it wasn't that big of a difference, let alone an improvement. I assume you're recording & mixing in digital, so what you're basically doing is sending the already converted digital signal back into the analog world, where it can pick up some more noise, and then back through conversion - which chops some life out of it - in to the digital box. So you're converting TWICE; unless you're recording at 96 or 192k with Apogee stuff or better, it doesn't make much sense to me to do it this way! Anyway! To asnwer your question: I had the summing buss permanently hooked up so, yes, I was monitoring through that all the time, during recording & mixing. But as I said, since I'm still recording @ 24/48, using the converters in my Emu 1212m, it was really only complicating things. __________________ If you're not a part of the solution, there's good money to be made in prolonging the problem.

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