Logic Pro 7 Mix Bus -- Mixing in Logic Pro 7.0 -- Something is wrong
Ok, Maybe its just me, or my crappy audio interface, or both. anyways, heres my issue.
Heres the scenario,
I have approx 30 tracks, a handful of exs's, eq's on most channels, everything is fine, the track is sounding great and i cant complain. I have done many mixes with a modest amount of tracks 30-60 tracks and they sound great.....
however,
I am working on this one song that is pushing close to 100 tracks. the mac is holding up nicely, however.... there are parts in the song where i have many elements playing simultaneously. The recordings sound good when solo'd. nice level, minimal eq, very light compression if needed.
when i let all the tracks play together, my mix sounds like crap.....it sounds so smashed, colorless, lifeless, kinda dead sounding. as if it had no depth.
I have never had this problem before. I have mixed lots of music in logic pro 7.
I feel as if all the calculated numbers in the mix bus are not adding up correctly.
MY AUDIO INTERFACE...
Digi Mbox2
yes i know, IMHO its a POS
I am forced to have it because there are still some PT sessions that i need access to,
I want an Apogee Ensemble
anyways
has anyone ever had a mixbus issue?
am i gonna have to take this project to an PTHD room?
or perhaps a good analog mixroom?
there have been quite a few mixes that i have done on this system that went straight to the mastering lab and then published...
this track is kickin me in my a$$
Thanks
Nicktunez Inc
G5quad 10GBram 2x250GBHDD Mac OS X (10.4.8) mbox2, BigKnob, Gen1031a, NS10s
jord, hi, yes i used to use them heaps, but the arrangements and track count were smaller as well.
unfortunately, when you have to sub grp many more sections for an orchestra as well i noticed a degradation in sound from them to the summing buss.
i checked all the ADC settings and so on.
so i reverted to trk > stereo sum.
i use groups to control sub levels.
i sort of liken this to the similar use on an analog console.
when trkg, we'd use the monitor mixer and the main chnl strps would be used for mix down.
to me, it was quite noticable that the quality changed/dropped when the main chnl strps were used. one or two were ok, but 40 became too colored.
the monitor mixer was less complex with less circuitry. cleaner.
this is where i stopped using eq a lot, mid 70s, and now i focus on well recorded sounds first.
anyway, i sure this wouldn't worry most people.
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