How do you deal with mixing a string of songs? (Sorry, long..

[mixsit]

This is about templates, trying to minimize keystrokes...
I seem to be spending a fair bit of time mixing live projects. The biggest difference from a typical 'studio' collection (although this could spill into those easily too) is quite a lot of the same processing going to each song.
A typical flow for me would be, load all the tracks into a set projects from a template created and loaded with the layout and plugs to fit what I expect will get me in the ball park. Then begin roughing them in, in a sort of round-robin style of discovery and Grok, land on the basic style and sound stage, gathering and up-dating various custom plug presets for the tracks.

Here comes the question...

General approach 1 -Make a project for each song? Each song gets it's own fine-tuned plug settings, but it makes for a lot more initial set-up moves.

Approach 2 - Make just a few (or one) song project? Saves a lot of set-up, but now, many plugs need to have a bunch of automation from song to song or, some custom multiples of a plug per track. (song 1 and 3, track1 gets comp-1, song 2 and 4 use comp-2) Ech. I did this some. Way too much room for error, lots of note taking.

How about it? I mean, it gets done, but I feel like I'm making too many moves, taking longer than it should. And I know this is one of the real good arguments for 'hit it and quit it mix it on the Mackie' too. But I would not want to not have total recall in this situation -round-robin mixing is really working well here.
All of a sudden 'object editing' like in Samplitude is looking pretty inviting.
I'm hoping maybe I'm just missing some obvious short cuts.
Hit me please.
Wayne

 

[Blue Bear Sound]

I've mixed a number of live recordings....

I tend to leave it as multiple songs in a single project. I'll do all the edits/sequencing/track order assembly in the one place (or a copy of the original project in case I need to restart!) - then I'll dump the assembled "show" to the HD24 for mixing.

Since it is a live show, there are far fewer effect/setting changes on tracks between songs (since you want consistency from track to track and you also have to "re-create" at least part of the live ambience.)

 

[mixsit]

Ah yes! A traditional mix is so much more straightforward and efficient. The trap ITB sets up.. for example, as player's general level changes or switches style, and/or it spills into a change in record level, things like eq, compression settings need to change too. You just adjust as you go from song to song. ITB, all of a sudden I have a bunch of settings to save, or a shit load of automation to write.
The last quick ref mix I did on the Mackie (in quite a while was actually rather fun, and satisfying in a different way.
But you well know that.
Wayne

 

[Strryder]

Mixit,

You could split the wave files in the multi-track into seperate songs, and then drag all of the waves to a new set of tracks for each song, that way when you work on each song, you'll be working on different tracks, so you wouldn't need to do all kinds of crazy automation, if you have 10 songs in a set, it'll be like having 10 different mixers, with each one setup for a single song.

Just an idea...