[Scott Dorsey]

Mike Rivers wrote:
Tape simulators and tube compressors don't have anything to do with analog
summing. The reason why people who like to sum channels in an analog mixer
is either because they like the sound (distortion) of the mixer or they
don't like
the math in their DAW.

So clean or dirty depends on what problem you're trying to solve.

And the thing is... if you like the way analogue consoles connected to
a tape machine sound... why not just use an analogue console connected to
a tape machine instead of fiddling around with all this stuff?

If it sounds the way you want, just go with it. People spend thousands of
dollars for goofy tape simulation crap when they could have just bought an
Ampex 440 for a couple hundred bucks and had the real thing.
--scott
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