Does a mix engineer have to own same plugins you recorded with?

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Hi,
I'm a newbie to the whole music production process - am doing some recording & am just wondering how do u go about sending your recorded tracks to a mix engineer when the tracks are done? Do you bounce each track individually? Also does the mix engineer have to own the same plugins as you to be able to mix - to get sounds they want for instruments?

For example I am recording a piano piece with Native Instruments - using their 'grand pianos' plugin & also using Garritan Orchestra plugin to add some extra orchestra sounds. Should I get sounds as best I can myself (as in the instrument sound I like & then send tracks individually to mix engineer & they can further tweak everything & go into frequency stuff etc. (getting rid of unwanted rumble etc.)?

My guess is of course they won't need same plugins - I guess I was just worried with my garritan orchestra sounds - cuz it's not really run of mill plugin - I don't think everyone would own it. But yea maybe I should just get orchestra sound & do bit of tweaking in plug in itself and then send it off when I happy enough with instrument sound?

thanks in advance for any help! :)
 
If you're building virtual instrument tracks I would get them perfect then bounce them down to stereo audio tracks with no effects.
Your mixing guy will thank you.

By all means, keep the instrument track muted in your session, in case you do decide something needs changed.
 
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Steenamaroo said:
If you're building virtual instrument tracks I would get them perfect them bounce them down to stereo audio tracks with no effects.
You mixing guy will thank you.

By all means, keep the instrument track muted in your session, in case you do decide something needs changed.
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That's twice now Steen's beaten me to the punch. xD

But yeah, the mix engineer would need your plug-ins if you're using INSTRUMENT plug-ins, such as the Garritan Orchestra sounds and the like. As Jimmy said, you should bounce those tracks out as stereo audio files. Just make sure all bounced files are the same length, so that way when the mix engineer gets the session, he can just put the tracks at the start of the session and all the parts are in the right spots!
 
jimmys69 said:
If you're building virtual instrument tracks I would get them perfect then bounce them down to stereo audio tracks with no effects.
Your mixing guy will thank you.

By all means, keep the instrument track muted in your session, in case you do decide something needs changed.
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Big +1.
 
What the junk, I can't see that response that Jimmy gave. The first one I'm seeing is the "What did I say?" one!
 
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