When to incorporate a mixer when writing your track

[craig]

I asked a similar question on here regarding mixing into Heat (rather than the SSL SiX), but the consensus seems to be whatever you prefer:

Mixing into Heat

Just wondering what you think is best practice and why here. So, I’ve been trying to decide which is best from these two options: Create and mix your track without Heat, then add it in to get that final polish usually in a much subtler way than doing Option 2… Have Heat on the master from the get-go, pushing things how you want them with the Heat being an integral part of the sound I’ve been doing a bit of both but it’s hard to decide which is optimal due to the fact that A/B testing is…

Anyway, maybe the thread will give you more food for thought and more opinions to balance