Okay maybe I'm newbin it up over here.. But I hardly use automation on anything besides riding the vocals here and there, and even then it will only be volume automation. I'm curious as to how do you guys automate? and what do you automate? Do any of you automate an eq with a low pass or high pass on any of your tracks in order to achieve more or less energy on specific parts of the song? Or maybe automate the ratio of of a compressor to be a bit higher on say a snare drum during the chorus of a song. I'm still learning a lot about audio in general and my primary focus at the moment is conveying the emotional aspects of the song through my mixing, and I guess I'm just wondering if automation is much more of a common practice than I thought.