Final Mix: Analog Wash & Summing Question

[Quinn9]

Hello All,

Hope I have entered the proper forum.

Blues Evolution is mixing a second CD. The music was recorded throughout in Protools. After we began mixing the idea occurred to me that it might be a nice touch to bath the tracs in analog. That is, there is a second studio nearby that has a Rupert Neve/AMEK 9098i Super Analog mixer and I thought that to run my 24 tracs through their board and back into Protools, I might enhance the sound of the final mix before going to two tracs.
Any opinions?

If it seems to you like a good idea (purely as possible sound enhancement) would it be just as well to simply run the final two trac mix through the Neve board or would there be some type of multitrack effect that I would lose by doing that way? I have wondered if by taking each individual track through the Neve, the final mix would actually end up with 24 tracs of analog color rather than just two.

Having considered this analog wash, just today, I learned about the conflict around the question of digital summing and now I wonder if Protools is actually mixing all 24 (or more) tracks accurately or does it perhaps get the digital sums wrong?

That matter might be something I should also consider and which would be somewhat easily remedied by this concept of the analog wash which I have been considering anyway.

If I do wash the individual tracs through an analog board and back into protools, since I have already finished the mixes of about 5 songs (including various processing plug-ins) could I run the tracs into the analog board while using the effects or would I have to start with only the bare tracs?

Thank you in advance for any ideas.

Yes!
Quinn

P.S. I hope I'm do not appear too precious about our work and
I'm not interested in polishing a turd here, but, you know,
this is my baby so I would like the end result to be top
notch.

[mr.armadillo]

Hope I have entered the proper forum.

Actually - no.

Blues Evolution is mixing a second CD. The music was recorded throughout in Protools. After we began mixing the idea occurred to me that it might be a nice touch to bath the tracs in analog. That is, there is a second studio nearby that has a Rupert Neve/AMEK 9098i Super Analog mixer and I thought that to run my 24 tracs through their board and back into Protools, I might enhance the sound of the final mix before going to two tracs.
Any opinions?

I'm surprised how many people still think their mix will benefit from something like that. True, you will add color to your mix, but then, you'll muddy things up because
of DA/AD artifacts! In my opinion, the benefit of "analog warmth" doesn't justify all the crap you add to your tracks by going trough that conversion process again. This will even happen with superior convertors - and you're talking about Pro Tools convertors here. I've done lots of testing, and believe me, your mix will sound a LOT less transparent. If you'd already recorded your tracks going trough the Neve, that would have been another story though.