If you need to equalize every track in
the mix, somebody's not doing their job in tracking. In my opinion.

I'd like you to find me one current commercial hard rock/ alt rock mix that you
believe has no eq on a particular instrument. Tracking perfectly looks good on
paper, but I always find that there is something that can use a little tweak,
even if its just a dip of .5 db at 300Hz... Also, even if something is mic'd
perfectly, its always convenient to have a decent eq if need be. You have an
analog board and I don't think you realize the FLATNESS of digital eq. People
blame summing of digital to make their mixes 2D, but the digital EQ is a close
second... But the key is summing out of the damn computer.. thats step number
one.... Hey hows my Samson doing???
Steve