
RecordingMaster
A Sarcastic Statement
Just wondered how you're all mixing? Mixing in the box with a mouse? Mixing in the box with your hands on a midi control surface with total recall motorized faders? Mixing out of the box on a board?
I know a lot of guys will wire up their big boards to be fully midi compatable with their DAW, etc, nut isn't that sort of rare because it's a huge pain? I also know a lot of old school guys will still do mix down on their boards and then sum it to their DAW. And then there's guys like me, who will mix itb and use a control fader to move everything around in their DAW, instead of clicking a mouse.
But what about you guys who are using an analog boards and then running that to pro tools and THEN mixing itb? Are you really just clicking around one thing at a time with a mouse? And then there's the guys that just mix itb clicking everything with a mouse. I just see all these nice pics of fancy looking studios with tons of gear, amazing looking rooms, great acoustics, crazy monitoring, tons of work gone into everything except I'll either see just a big huge board (not like an Avid Control 24) or I'll see tons of preamps and just a regular computer keyboard with different colored keys and a mouse. If those guys are having to move the faders, mutes, arming, solo-ing, etc all with their mouse....why would they not invest any money into the one thing that would really improve and speed up work flow?
Maybe I'm missing something here?...
In my case I use a BCF2000 which is a far cry from anything impressive looking or commercial and can be hard to get used to when you're only using one (8 faders per bank each) and you have a 50 track session including all your busses, etc. I DO someday plan on getting either a control 24 or an MCU Pro with a couple extenders, but even with what I have it makes a world of a difference as opposed to just a mouse.
I know a lot of guys will wire up their big boards to be fully midi compatable with their DAW, etc, nut isn't that sort of rare because it's a huge pain? I also know a lot of old school guys will still do mix down on their boards and then sum it to their DAW. And then there's guys like me, who will mix itb and use a control fader to move everything around in their DAW, instead of clicking a mouse.
But what about you guys who are using an analog boards and then running that to pro tools and THEN mixing itb? Are you really just clicking around one thing at a time with a mouse? And then there's the guys that just mix itb clicking everything with a mouse. I just see all these nice pics of fancy looking studios with tons of gear, amazing looking rooms, great acoustics, crazy monitoring, tons of work gone into everything except I'll either see just a big huge board (not like an Avid Control 24) or I'll see tons of preamps and just a regular computer keyboard with different colored keys and a mouse. If those guys are having to move the faders, mutes, arming, solo-ing, etc all with their mouse....why would they not invest any money into the one thing that would really improve and speed up work flow?
Maybe I'm missing something here?...
In my case I use a BCF2000 which is a far cry from anything impressive looking or commercial and can be hard to get used to when you're only using one (8 faders per bank each) and you have a 50 track session including all your busses, etc. I DO someday plan on getting either a control 24 or an MCU Pro with a couple extenders, but even with what I have it makes a world of a difference as opposed to just a mouse.