Cubase mixdown question

[NL5]

OK, I probaly do things in a wierd sorta way, but I am wondering if it is hurting my final mixdown. What I do is take all my recorded tracks and mix them to 16 stems, those go out to my Ghost for summation, then that mix is sent back into the converter and recorded on a stereo track inside of the project. Then, I take that track and send it to a bus, throw a uv22 on it, and export it to a .wav. Is cubase "mxixng' the two sides of the track slightly, or should it simply adjust the bit depth/rate and leave each half of the stereo track exactly as it was recorded?

The reason I ask is, there seems to be quite a difference from the "live" sound (playback of the 16 "stems") and the final mixdown. I expect a subtle difference, but it is more than subtle.

Thanks.

 

[Halion]

While I've never heard an "out of the box" but digital mix (by using analogue summings are you're doing), I would be shocked if Cubase let data slip from one side to the other (bleed from L to R and R to L). I would guess the difference has to be subtle aswell, but like I said, I've never heard it.

 

[xstatic]

Have you tried just importing your 2 track mix from the ghost into a 2 track editor and applying the UV22 there? Have you tried to find a way to have your apogees do the conversion to 16 bit as it comes out of the Ghost and gets converted back to the digital realm?

 

[NL5]

Have you tried just importing your 2 track mix from the ghost into a 2 track editor and applying the UV22 there? Have you tried to find a way to have your apogees do the conversion to 16 bit as it comes out of the Ghost and gets converted back to the digital realm?

I'll try that - the Apogee has the uv22hr built into it..........

Thanks!

 

[xstatic]

Thats why I mentioned that. I knew you had the Apogees. I figure the Uv22 has to be at least as good (or better) on the hardware side than in the software.