LeeRosario
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Hey guys, I might have already answered this question before i ask it, but here we go. I like different opinions on this type of thing.
So when it comes down to mastering stuff that I do in house, I'm taking my two tracks and running it back out through the channel strips on the same console (channels 1 and 2) just as standard monitor playback. Now by question is:
Even if all the channel strips are calibrated with everything bypassed (eq, dynamics), are we looking at an "unpure" signal, meaning that I'm running it back through the channel strip and back out of the summing buss? Or does that not matter? I figure it depends on the console, which in this case is an SSL 900aws. I figure it's clean, but maybe not clean enough for "true" mastering playback.
And if it's not couture for mastering, then how would you recommend setting up the patchbay to bypass as much of the console as possible? The console is really only acting as playback at that point.
So when it comes down to mastering stuff that I do in house, I'm taking my two tracks and running it back out through the channel strips on the same console (channels 1 and 2) just as standard monitor playback. Now by question is:
Even if all the channel strips are calibrated with everything bypassed (eq, dynamics), are we looking at an "unpure" signal, meaning that I'm running it back through the channel strip and back out of the summing buss? Or does that not matter? I figure it depends on the console, which in this case is an SSL 900aws. I figure it's clean, but maybe not clean enough for "true" mastering playback.
And if it's not couture for mastering, then how would you recommend setting up the patchbay to bypass as much of the console as possible? The console is really only acting as playback at that point.