How will I bring my tracks from the computer to a mixer

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Hi,
Just wondering how you guys do when you bring your tracks from the computer to an analogue mixer. Do you use the busses of the recording software (Logic in my case) and route them to individual outputs of the A/D/DA interface and then to the mixer.

And how do you record your master?

The reason for asking is that I think the sound of the mixes made all digital sounds like shit (at least mine). The quality of the different sounds involved are great, but I cannot get the different sounds together like the "melting pot" I'm after. It was much easier at the "tape" days.

I also don't like the sound of the plugins I've tried, and I've tried Waves, TC and other. I even think I can get a better reverb out of my old Digitech.

So I've bought a used D&R Dayner and will use hardware "plugs" from now and will do my mixes on the desk.

I know I can route the busses to it, but I would like to know how you do it. At the moment I have 16 outs from my interface, but I use more tracks recording.

Are there any pros or cons using busses or individual tracks routing to the mixer?

As usual....a lot of questions....as usual any answer is appreciated!

Hans,
www.hagen.nu
 
That's pretty much how I do it. I use Cakewalk and I can assign an individual track or any group of tracks I want to a output of the MOTU 2408 which goes to a HD24 (in this case it functions as a 24 channel soundcard) and out to an analog console. I mix back to two inputs back into the computer.
 
Thanks Track Rat,

Do you think the grouping/bussing of tracks digitally affects the quality of the sound instead of bringing them individually to the mixer? Do you have you any experiences of this? I mean, I suspect when putting several tracks together with their bits and samples it cannot be right, it has to be even more approximate in definition....or am I wrong here.

D/A outs are not so expensive....

...I'm longing to put my fingers on faders again.

Hans
 
I usually don't group more than 4 to 6 tracks together at the most. usually it's one to one. No noticable degradation to my ears.
 
Ok,
As I understood you, you're tracking the two channel master back to the computer at the same time as you're doing the mix on the desk. How do you do this...putting it into a stereo pair back? I was thinking about the possibility to master to Wavelab (for example) at the same time as playing the tracks from Logic on the same computer. Did I follow you right here..

Hans
 
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Your on the right track but there's no reason to record the mix in a different program. Just enable a stereo channel to record on 2 inputs and route the output of your mixer there. You can edit and process the mixdown in Wavelab later if you need to.
 
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