Well it's true bouncing to disk sucks... Here are some ways it sucks less. First of all, if your using an ultramaximizer on your mix bus. Take it easy. This to me is the thing that really mucks a mix. Try easing off on it, back your whole mix of and and don't let your maximizer push more than -3 on the right real time scale more than a few times in your mix. The minuite this thing works harder than that. ;javascript: insertTag(document.post_form.msg_body, '', '
'); EWwwww!!! Use it more as limiter that a sound enhancer. Try keeping your mix bus at 0db, and set your Ultramximizer betwen -1.2 and -1.8 threshold. This will give you the closest rep of what your trying to do. And ofcourse always process your bit conversion after the fact and not during. That means keeping your Ultramaximizers at the highest working bit rate.
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If your using a bounce to disk with an external word clock... Good luck. Word clocks sound better when your mixing because there working on playback and this helps a multi out situation. On most systems word clocks are sort of bypassed when the information is written to disk. I would suggest Buying an old 1" and hooking it up to your mix outputs.