Hi John,

I virtually never change any of the Realtracks when I'm putting together a song. They sound just right the way they are. (I subscribe to the 'if it ain't broke, why fix it' philosophy.) If you have a listen to the demos at the following link, you'll hear what I mean about the sounds being already optimized.

http://www.pgmusic.com/bbwin.realtracks.htm

Peter Gannon has mentioned many times in these forums that the demos are put together using instruments exactly as they're shipped with the program. Since BIAB is 'out of the box' accompaniment software that's designed to be used in live situations, PG Music have paid a great deal of attention to getting the sound right without need for modification.

My view is that if the tracks sound this good, there's no need for me to do anything else other than mix them. Recently, I've started using the Ozone plugin in a master bus so that the final mix goes through this plug-in. I've found Ozone great at adding a bit of 'sparkle'. As mentioned, though, I do that to the whole mix and not the individual tracks.

That's just my tuppence worth.

Regards,
Noel

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