Mixing on OT vs in the DAW

alexdecker · 2013-11-05T20:55:13.000Z

Hi all

I use my Octatrack a lot as a drum machine routed into Ableton Live. Usually I mix my drums on the Octatrack, route the audio to Ableton Live, and do some finishing compression and a little reverb on the high end perhaps.

All you other people – do you mix directly on the OT, or do you record each track to your DAW, before treating it further?

Alex

FmSafari · 2013-11-05T21:47:32.000Z

No computer involved in my setup. A4 and MD into OT and record its main output with a fieldrecorder (sony pcm-m10) per line-in.

Mixing and leveling with ears only.

But I make no professionel music, at first I do music for my soul.

prettyboy · 2013-11-05T21:56:15.000Z

main out into my daw then some kind of saturation or compression
but i’m going to get some more cables and experiment with recording each track to a separate track especially since i’m using the OT as a mixer too

Clubkaiser · 2013-11-05T22:02:17.000Z

Hey Alex,

For me it really depends on what I am working on actually. Jamsessions are recorded as two track straight into Ableton through Ozone5.
So mixing is done in the OT only because I find its internal summing pretty good!

But if I am working on a project I always record each track seperatly, in case I have to share the multitrack or I hand it over to a dedicated mixing/mastering engineer.

Though I wish the OT would have more outputs as recording multiple tracks can be time consuming sometimes…

Cheerio,
C.

vvd · 2013-11-05T22:08:13.000Z

No computer. Just the octa, some synths and pedals with analogue mixer, compression and EQ. I also rarely record something. Just foolin’ around

nedavine · 2013-11-06T06:39:01.000Z

No computer here only for recording the stereo out when I wanna make a youtube video (which is all I do these days).

alexdecker · 2013-11-06T16:23:18.000Z

Alright. I got two songs going right now in Ableton Live, and I am running the drums from samples on the OT. I have mixed it on the OT – I was just wondering if it was better recording the raw sound into Ableton, and then put reverb, compression etc. on the sound afterwards…

Barfunkel · 2013-11-06T16:40:16.000Z

Speaking of mixing, how’s the EQ on the OT? Crappy? Useable? Great?

bandersong · 2013-11-06T18:51:28.000Z

Useable for cutting unwanted freqs and effects. Not great.