Ok, so your songs done! All arranged perfectly. You've rendered down your VSTi tracks to WAV files.

Time to mix!

Whats your setup look like?

Whats on your sends/busses/returns?

Discuss!

-Sin

its all the same to me, mixing and recording, i dont really separate the two

i have a fast enough computer that i dont need to render anything either, i change stuff all the way up to the last minute

how you like them apples?

haha! well put!

-Sin

Just this plug in:

All faders down to minus infinity.
No plugins loaded yet.

Groups:

Kick
Snare
Toms
Overheads
All above routed to single Drum group
Other groups:
Bass
Clean guitars
Distortion guitars
Acoustic guitars
Synths
Solo guitars
Lead synth
Vox
Back Vocals
Percussion
Sometimes another group for parallel compression (for drums)

All routed to Master group that has Limiter already loaded.


FX sends:

Drum room (all drum tracks sent here)
Drum reverb (usually for snare and toms)
3 - 4 more reverbs for vocals, guitars, leads....
Delay

The base setup for me is:

-Saturation model on each channel.
-EQ per channel as Required.
-Drum bus with SSL Compressor and TLA-100 Level Amp.
-Aux Channel with Reverb
-Aux Channel with compression and distortion mixed in at about 5-10%
-Sometimes I record the room on an aux channel. By that I mean I play the track with a mic setup in the room in then mix it back in.
-Tape Model on Aux or Master bus depending what i feel like.
-Master Channel has SSL Comp and TLA-100 Level amp.

This is just the begining though the rest of the setup is as required.

I have a range of Compressor, limiters, eq's, saturation models, distortions, and Tape models that may be used, depending on what I feel works. Some things may end up going to outboard gear.

I just added Waves NLS to the collection so that goes on every channel now.

I get the sound right in the tracks first with DMG Audio Equick on some to cut bits out to let others shine through. Guitars & Drum Kit get their own Soundtoys Effects. I do heavy rock and paul Van Dyk type music, film type music. When Slate VTM comes out I will have Studer A800 tape emulation on each track and the Studer 827 on the master. I think thats how it will be used.

Drum track
Steven Slate Drums 4
Slate VCC
Soundtoys Decapitator
Soundtoys Devil-Loc Deluxe
Soundtoys Filterfreak 2

Master
Slate VCC to glue it together and warm it up.
Slate VTM will be on it soon - Studer 827 tape emulation
Slate FG-X to get it a little louder and add subtle compression

Sends
Soundtoys Plugs:-
Echoboy - delay
Echoboy - reverb
Decapitator - fatten it up more energy
Filterfreak 2 - for more bass
Devil-Loc Deluxe - adds bit of compression and crunchyness.

Jelly, cracker crumbs. Ya. know the usual.

The same. I have several jelly, cracker crumb templates.

Track set up varies but the stereo buss almost always has the following:

VOS Baxter EQ
VOS Tessla Pro
ToneBoosters ReelBus

I sometimes switch the order of Tessla Pro & ReelBus.

Hey, so what is an Echoboy - Reverb?

Also, I'm interested - how are you using Devil-Loc Deluxe (great sounding)/Decapitator as sends?

Same...

Echoboy is a delay that can do all types of delay and mimic vintage gear and tape delay. It can do reverbs too but its not a true reverb simulation.

Decapitator uses a lot of CPU would prefair it not on the sends but thats the way it has to be.
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