One simple mixing question

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Remember that "if it sounds good, its good" !

When I was starting with mixing I liked to have separate tracks for everything, including different gain staging on guitars. With more experience, I'm getting more and more likely to use tons of automation because I find it comfy. Sometimes it happens that I realize that 6 curves of automation to control a guitar amp simulator is a bit too much, ten I go for separate tracks. But generally my vocals and guitars do have 3-4 envelopes, mostly for volume, brightness, bass cut and threshold of distortion.
 
You can combine them, or in Protool put them all in a mix group so you can change the volume and automation of all your guitar tracks together
 
What I do is leave all the separate channels with the effects that make them different and send them all to a group channel/buss and use that to apply the eq, compression and any effects that I want on all the guitar tracks.
Automation can work, but it can get a little tedious and sometimes the transisions are harder to get nice.
 
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