Hi:

I'd like to be able to come out of my DAW to mix using my rack gear,
analog board and mixdown deck. Do you guys and gals use the desk or
the software to control levels? It seems to me that if you set the DAW
faders to unity and balance on the board you're giving up the
advantage of working up a mix over a period of time with the DAW's
recall, while I would think it would be really hard to get the gain on
each channel of a board to be equal so your mix in the box translates
immediately on the board. Do you send tones through each channel of
the board first to get equal unity levels or is it a question of
tweaking back and forth between the computer and the board? Am I
missing something obvious? Thanks in advance for your replies.