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WTF is summing

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Submitted by anonymous on Sun, 08/08/2004 - 19:20

Yes start throwing things at me now.

Did I say I am new to PT LE and recording?

I keep seeing all this "summing" talk here.

What the hell is it exactly? What is it used for? Why would you use it?

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iznogood

my mom says: there are no stupid questions.... only stupid answers

summing is simply mixing signals together to eg. stereo

it can be done in the protools mixer .... an external mixer .... or a dedicated external summing mixer that does nothing more than adding all the signals together.....

alot of talk has been about the dedicated summing mixers as they can make a protools mix sound better than summing digitally (protools)....

and remember.... we're all here to learn

Mon, 08/09/2004 - 14:48 Permalink
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KurtFoster

Summing can also be mixing two or more channels or tracks to one or more channels, tracks or sub mix bus's ..

Mixers all have summing amplifiers .. that combine the signals of many channels into one. An aux is a summing bus..as is the 2 mix (stereo master) or a sub. Any time you are adding two or more signals together, you are summing ... just like in arithmetic..

Tue, 08/10/2004 - 11:16 Permalink