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Posted by CReddick on Jan-19-2011 21:33:

I'm not sure what all you guys are talking about but that pic of the SSL Nucleus in the original post made my cock twitch. Wow

Posted by Looney4Clooney on Jan-20-2011 18:12:

your post made my cock twitch. Nice work gaylord. Keep that shit in the bedroom nancy boy.

Posted by DJ RANN on Jan-20-2011 22:42:

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Originally posted by cryophonik

Cheers Dave, I was refraining from replying to that because it would have come off a bit arsey if I had so thanks!

As you rightly point out, drawing automation is fine for a lot of tasks but when you have to mix even 30+ tracks it's saves so much time to have multiple faders.

Even doing simple things like getting a rough drum mix balance is so much faster with real faders - you can literally do it in a few seconds.

There's another aspect though which a lot of people don't consider:

The actual mix phase (recording the movement of faders) is a creative stage, if not one of the closest things an engineer can get to in terms of artistic creativity.

A lot of engineers I know try to separate the automation stage (and by that I mean the recording of the mix levels) from the rest of the technical parts so it can just be a creative process. It may sound lame but some of the guys I've worked with just close their eyes and kind of "zone in" on it....I've even seen a couple look like they going to cry from "feeling the music" etc.

If you're drwing in automation, you can't do that, as you still have so much of your brain focusing on the technical.

The other thing I miss is a really useful little trick to hear what reverb tails sound like, that can only be done on hardware, and not with drawn automation.

The final thing is simply that it's way more fun to use real faders.

I actually wish the nucleus had just been a control surface (or that the old Tascam US 2400 actually worked

Posted by tehlord on Jan-20-2011 22:47:

I was recenetly trying to balance a 4 layer pad/string for an ambient thingy.

No fun with a mouse.

I also know my ears work better when i'm not staring at a screen when i'm moving faders with a mouse.

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