Reason Stems & SSL Xrack Summing Mixer?

[JKIEYZ]

I've searched this board and constantly find the debate on the sound quality of Propellerhead Reason and it seems as if everyone has there opinion on it either being great or horrible.Personally I also saw it as if you use great sample or sounds in the end your song could come out great with the proper production technique.Maybe I'm wrong.I'm currently taking the time to build up my personal sound library by sampling different virtual instruments & keyboard workstations sounds I like using the Redmatica Autosampler 2 and they have a option of saving in the NN-XT file format for reason so I have a good starting point of high-quality sounds.

But In the end we are all after the "big sound" with lots of clarity and definition to the mix.My goal is to do a complete track minus the vocals in Reason 4 with a ruff mix & rewire it to Pro Tools 8 LE and run it thru a Neve 8816 or SSL X-rack summing mixer.I'm using lynx aurora converters & digidesign 003+ rack as my front end.

Could someone explain the process of routing my reason stems thru a summing mixer and talk about the advantages of using a summing mixer?

Will this help me acheive the sound of a analog console mix?

Any advice on this will help out alot!

Thanks

 

[Formant024]

you pay for saturation and its a difficult topic to judge which summing is best, if id need to choose between 8816 or the xrack then i'd prefer the Neve personally. But i also like the Tubetech, Aurora GTM8, Dangerous 2bus or the thermionic fat bustard or Cranesong spider (though thats not specifically a summing mixer) but you also might like to look at a Cranesong HEDD if you're working ITB for a 2 track processor. Other than that, i dont see why you should track out to PT ? Reason can use the aurora outputs when you summ an instrumental unless you need processing in PT indeed.

 

[7thangel]

http://www.gearslutz.com/board/music-computers/353984-summing-box-question.html
http://www.gearslutz.com/board/q-ha...-tony-platt/127736-question-mick-summing.html
http://www.gearslutz.com/board/music-computers/135928-summing-box-daws-marketing-hype-worth.html
http://www.gearslutz.com/board/high-end/366217-sound-summing-mixers-vs-consoles.html

i put these up because this is discussed and argued constantly at gearslutz

 

[JKIEYZ]

you pay for saturation and its a difficult topic to judge which summing is best, if id need to choose between 8816 or the xrack then i'd prefer the Neve personally. But i also like the Tubetech, Aurora GTM8, Dangerous 2bus or the thermionic fat bustard or Cranesong spider (though thats not specifically a summing mixer) but you also might like to look at a Cranesong HEDD if you're working ITB for a 2 track processor. Other than that, i dont see why you should track out to PT ? Reason can use the aurora outputs when you summ an instrumental unless you need processing in PT indeed.

So the converters play a huge part of the way reason sounds once its rendered down? I love the workflow and want to be able to use reason only but my two main concerns have been the getting high quality samples & rendering tracks down with great sound quality