| Hi all,
I'm about to mix and master a project. It's all synth sounds, except
for some Kurzweil piano. I have a studio in mind on the north shore
that I was going to use for mixing. The board is an automated,
digital board - Yamaha, don't know the model. The console has
compression on each channel, not sure what else. It's a recent model,
so I'm sure it's got the latest technology.
I was telling this to a friend who then told me that he's heard that
a digital mixing console can leave your mix sounding too cold,
and that it's best to use an analog board.
The engineer, on the other hand, has said he's gotten many compliments
on the mixes that have come through that board.
My friend was trying to convince me to do a home mix. I've got the
EQ, reverb mix, and all tweaked, and was going to try to transfer the
settings to the Yamaha board. I'm not an audio engineer, and for a
project that I've been working on for several years, I don't want to
take any chances with background noise, levels not right, compression,
etc., which is why I want a pro to do it. I could always take my board
to the studio (RAMSA WR 8118) I suppose.
All comments welcome.
Thanks,
Bill
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| Sounds like a ProMix 01 board to me.
Frankly, since the whole project is digital, I wouldn't be too
concerned about the lack of 'color' that a digital board won't induce.
Now, if it were all guitars, bass, and vox, then I might be looking for
a pro studio with gobs of tube gear or something, but what's the point?
It's all digital anyway, right?? If the Kurzweil piano is an analog
piano, run a tube device on the insert of that channel, or compress the
whole mix thru a nice tube device...??
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