From: mark mark )
Subject: newbie digital mastering questions


[...]
Digital summation seems to cause some problems.

What problems might those be?

I'm using cool edit pro 2.1.

[...]

Is the problem with modern tools that tend to be inherently clean, or is the
problem related to custom, habit, familiarity, training and experience with
unfamiliar tools?


Well, that was sort of the direction of my inquiry-- to differentiate a
few
things before I just started buying this or that. Whether I needed
a few texts, or some hardware, or more experience, or all of
the above.
But thank you for
your useful information and classic subtle condescending usenet
persona .


[...]

Exactly what automatic pan messages are you speaking of, if you are using
Audition/CEP? If you are doing multitrack mixing with Audition/CEP, the
technical equivalent of pan messages reside in the .ses file associated with
this particular session. They don't go anywhere near your audio interface,
and are always kept separate from the audio files for each track and the
mixdown.

If you have several tracks that need pan adjustments on them, and you do
not
have a mixing board with memory, then to physically turn the
pan/fx knobs that quickly as the tracks progress could be very difficult.
Of course this depends on what is needed for each piece.
Pan messages are heard out a stereo pair. If you used an audiocard
with 8 independant outs, then you have 8 outs, and no pan messages
would apply. You would wind up going thru a physical board to get
down to a stereo pair. Even if you went back into your card, you would
have to blend them somehow, before going into the stereo in.
Mark