fixnmix2k wrote: > The first is that by going out multiple busses you can send more > level of drums to one buss , guitars to another, Keys, vocals, loops- - what > have you. Thus you are using more of the information from the > original track. I have been led to understand that to really get the benefits of 24 Bit you > need to keep your levels up between 6 and 0 digital max. SO - first off now > you have more resolution being sent out more places - Absolutely negligible. And then you have some full scale stems which have to be turned down when summed somewhere else. What have you gained? > Plus on a single Two Buss - that is alot of number crunching - your > computer is already doing disk ops, screen re-draws, summing, running plugs, > blah blah blah - SOMEWHERE it has to start lopping off numbers (32Bit > float helps alot)- this is where TDM really fails. Bullshit. TDM is 48 point fixed now. No problem at all. And how do you think the summing algo works when the computer strains? "Ah, well, I think I let some numbers go because I should give some power to the screen redraws..." If there´s not enough DSP power you get an error message, but no compromised summing. > the algorithm for summing is very important - and I know very little > about the different ones - again where TDM fails - math made for > computers in the early '90s Ah, yes, math underwent some major changes since the early 90s... > I have actually been sending all my mixes out separate Busses or Auxes > before they go to the Two Buss - or to a console. It works great for > the UAD card and the Firium EQ as I can add sample delay to other > tracks to keep my stuff lined up - plus I keep the buss faders down a few db that way I > can push up the original track and get as much resolution as possible. Yes, lose some here, gain some there... You should practice proper gain staging on ALL platforms. Peter --- http://www.merlinsound.de