Appendix Summing to talk about!

 

 

The rise of the analog summing mixer in a land of digital audio workstations

Go back just a few years to before Pro Tools became the leading DAW used in professional recording, and it is unlikely that you would have heard anything about “summing mixers.” Today, perhaps as a response to the explosive growth of computer-based digital audio systems by the analog equipment manufacturers, you hear plenty on the subject.

Engineers who advocate the use of summing mixers point out that when you are summing signals digitally inside a DAW you have to take care to avoid overloading the internal digital mix bus, lowering the fader from unity gain is necessary to do this. When a track’s fader is lowered, they say, this ...

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