500 series, SSL X-Rack etc. when mixing?

[Erlend_]

Hi.

Ive been looking into all these modular systems as they seem to be a nice way to incrementally upgrade a studio.
You can buy new modules when you can afford it and there seems to be a ton of different kinds of pres and eqs you can get (especially the 500 series).

So lets suppose I have a interface with a 8 channel external AD converter running into Cubase. I can see how this would work when tracking, but how would you use this stuff when mixing?
I mean, look at the SSL Mynx, which is essentially just one channelstrip. Does that mean that you can just use it for one of your channels when mixing? What I mean is, do I have to bounce each track through it at a time?
Im supposing that there must be a way to work around this because otherwise I hardly see the point of having just one channelstrip (except for tracking).

Any of you guys here got a setup like this up and running and wanna enlighten me?

 

[lolzgreg]

If you have soley an eq and compressor in the mix, you can use it as an assignable analog insert if your board/inteface permits. Otherwise you would just run it as your input channel strip for tracking (it makes sense, IMHO). I would rather get a set of 8 pres, or 8 eq's 8 comps, etc.

-Greg

 

[Ermz]

You can either use it as a real-time insert on your track or bounce all your audio through it offline. The kicker is that Cubase doesn't let you do both interchangeably without re-assigning your I/O settings. Another win for Steinberg

 

[trym^^]

i'm looking into buying the api lunchbox,
which i would use mainly directly during tracking.
in the mixstage i'd have a nice 2buss comp,
parallel comp for drums and maybe one or two
eqs for vocals all run through adat i/o into
rme converters.

 

[Erlend_]

Seems like I will be using the 500 series stuff for tracking then.
I think Ill focus on preamps and just use plugins when mixing..