Bouncing to Disk Quality

[spaceman]

I did a search on this but turned up nada so forgive me if this has been done but....

looks like I gotta forgo my ideal of mixing my album to outboard bus comp and to half inch. The only viable option is to use emulation plugs and to go bouncing to disk. Does this degrade the sound quality at all? I vaguely remember a rumour sometime that it was best not to mix to disk like this and to record out to DAT or other medium.

anyone shed me some light please?

[minister]

well, the PT HD mix bus is 48bit FIXED and LE is 32 bit floating. that is going to be better than any 16 bit DAT.

the days of horror with BTD, are pretty much behind us.

however....

what i do, with music only projects, is create my 24/96 session (or 24/48 or 24/44 ...). mix mix mix. then, bus my mix to an aux that i call my master. create an audio track. set its input to a bus i call "reprint", then, on a send, bus from the main aux to the audio channel. it is RTD, or record to disk. i do this becasue i hated getting the bounce handler errors, and i also put it in destructive record so that if there is a mistake, i can stop fix it, and punch in, and not have to go back. this also seems to work best for heavy automation. then i select the region, shift-apple-k, export as 24/96 to my designated forlder. et voilá!

if the band needs a reference, i pop the 24/96 file into barbabatchg, and make a 16/44.1.

i send 24/96 to mastering.

[Ray Lyon]

what i do, with music only projects, is create my 24/96 session (or 24/48 or 24/44 ...). mix mix mix. then, bus my mix to an aux that i call my master. create an audio track. set its input to a bus i call "reprint", then, on a send, bus from the main aux to the audio channel. it is RTD, or record to disk.

Is there an easier way of routing so one can RTD instead of BTD? This seems unnecessarily complex.

[Stig Eliassen]

If you use templates, you can include a stereo aux (PreMaster) and a stereo audio track (PrintMix) ready to go from the beginning. For instance, rename Bus 1-2 to "PreMaster", and Bus 3-4 to "PrintMix".

Go to the I/O Setup and choose Bus 1-2/"PreMaster" to be your new default output for new tracks.

If you don't use templates you can avoid the only true hassle in this scenario by choosing a stereo bus path as the default for new tracks. Done in seconds.

[jre3132]

Is there an easier way of routing so one can RTD instead of BTD? This seems unnecessarily complex.

its not. when you're done mixing, create a stereo track and change the input (it will default to the correct output), and then change the output of the master aux.

thats really the only extra step. when you bounce, you still have to select settings and location of the file.