bounce or wait?

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I have a couple of questions. First: Say i have 4 separate guitar tracks in pa9, is it better to bounce them before mixdown or just to leave them and wait until final mixdown?

Second: Is the audio compression tool something to use all the time, it seems to me that some data must be lost therefore decreasing sound quality. I would like to use this if it could cut mixes down to under 100MB so i could throw them on zip for backup instead of burning bundles. Thanks...
 
Genie in the Bottle -

There are minor trade-offs whichever way you go. If you bounce them to a single track now and then delete the individual trackes, you will lose the ability to do any final adjustments to the individual tracks once you have had the chance to hear them in the final mix.

On the other hand, if you leave them as individual tracks you will consume more CPU overhead on playback.

What I would suggest is to bounce them down to a single track, and then archive the original individual tracks. This would reduce your processor overhead (archived tracks don't consume any resources upon playback), while still allowing you to go back and recover the individual tracks should you decide you want to take a different approach with them later on.

As to your second question, I'm not sure what you mean by the "audio compression tool". Are you referring to "compact audio data" on the tools menu, or compression as a software plug-in??
 
Sorry, I meant the "Compact Audio Data" tool. Has it ever screwed anyone's projects up. I don't ever use it and have been curious as well as suspicious.
 
I've never used it. According to Cakewalk, all it does is combine all the individual wave files associated with a project into one single file.

Seems to me the tool is mis-named, since it doesn't reduce the storage space or shrink the files. Cakewalk claims it makes playback more efficient. However, it doesn't appear to be of any help with what you're looking to do.
 
I agree with using the archive option to keep your multi takes. (alternative to mute) Does Cubase have an equivalent system??

cheers
john
 
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