OK the only problem is that we're still waiting for the last essentail piece of kit (the interface card) to arrive. So no can do this Saturday.
But yes in future we will be able to record every channel on the dsk individually in raw form. This means without any EQ, gates, compressors, or FX applied. This would enable the whole performance to be entirely remixed with improved EQ, gating, compression and FX at someone's leisure. We can also take a feed in from the audience. The recording process is also fully digital and takes digital feeds from our desk. This means the intsruments are picked up by the mics or whatever, sent to the desk, converted to digital data, then sent to the recorder.
The recording system also has the facility to add in EQ, compression, gating, editing, FX etc all in the digital domain. This helps to preserve the quality of recording. Alternatively should there be a requirement to run a particular datastream through an analog unit then this is also possible.
Once each channel/track/datastream has been processed, in other words once we have revisited the kick drum track and made it sound just the way we want it to and so forth, then we can build up the balance of the various tacks in the mix, and then apply futher layers of compression etc if necessary.
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