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"Pro" only OTB?

I don't know about the new format of the forum, to be honest.

I myself, despite six degrees of separation, know of at least one gold selling album (US) recorded and mixed completely ITB in a small bedroom in Marina Del Rey. I can vouch for it. I was there for a good week while it was being done. The only outboard that was used was in the front end, AFAIK.

Now they want me to mix OTB!

You know, one of the chains in my workflow just bit the dust, so I crawled out of my cave to do a little shopping - and I am amazed that all of the marketing tends to want to point us towards a "hybrid" system - with "real" tactile touch of faders, and the ability to mix OTB because it has that "analog sound and feel".

OTB mixing. brand new to me, trying to learn as much as possible

Im a communications student studying audio at this time, all I've ever done for recording is mic the instrument...run those to a Mackie 1604-vlz which runs into our 002 factory board then into pro tools. We'd track everything and then i'd use a few basic PT plugins to mix afterwards.

Otb

Out Of The Box - A term that refers to a recording project that was partially or completely produced using hardware equipment outside of the computer. Box is another term for a computer.

See: DAW

OTB - see analog summing and hybrid DAW
see: ITB

Dazed and confused OTB and ITB

I have some older vintage analog tape gear along with new computer recording gear...and I need some advice on how best to wrangle and incorporate all of the various pieces I want to use so I can record and :roll: playback some analog tracks and then run those into my DAW, then maybe mix other analog sources back again..some digital stuff and some analog stuff and be able to move between the two