03-05-2021, 05:26 PM
(03-05-2021, 02:20 PM)marilynfleming Wrote: My current strategy is to ignore MIX, pull the individual participant tracks plus the STREAM-MIX into my DAW. I use STREAM-MIX solely to manually sync the participant tracks. This would be a pain if I was doing more than 3 parts, but it's tolerable for duets and trios. Even if the stream was synced, using the DAW lets me to balance the volume and panning better. I don't think either mix or streammix are dealing with panning at all, and I can't figure out volume adjustment when playing live. What I want to hear when I play is not what I want to hear in a recording.
Like you, I ignore the auto-generated mix and use the individual tracks with names that begin 'LocalTrack'. As you say, the mixed track can be useful for synchronisation. In a long session, when individual tracks are not yet synchronised, it can also be useful as a reference for finding which song is which.
By working with the individual tracks, even basic things like using different eq on each track can give a big improvement on the automated mix.