…and keep in mind, once u use single outs, rytm can’t provide u it’s summing skills, so the summing must take place elsewhere…
and it’s really about make ALL elements work together as smoothly as possible…no matter if smooth means raw power or nicely swinging along for u… that’s all up to ur personal taste only…
wich leads to the question, how do u sum up ur stuff…?
all the common daw’s out there are not good in summing busses or stems to one final stereo signal…
and never forget to kill any stereo information in the final stereo signal below at least 80 hz…mono is ur best friend down there…
and the low mids also always need way more clean up than u might think in first place…if u want the big wall of sound u got to demudd the whole frequency spectrum a lot…
always start final mixes from scratch again…even if the whole production process is already some kind of pre mixing these days…
and u got to keep also in mind, whatever u hear out there, it’s always mastered…final stereo sum processing is the last and an x tra step…and does a lot to ur final perception of the whole thing…
most common trick here is to run the sum paralell through a tough compression to add it to the true signal…only then u can add this compressed signal to the perfect level underneath…
otherwise the very final brickwall limiting gets not enough warm flesh to pump it up for real …
and try to avoid to join the cake of the common loudness war out there…
louder is only on first sight sounding better…
there are many good reasons why the old stereotype of less is more will always keep it’s true value…