21-01-2016, 07:09 PM
I've been doing the same thing. No need to process everything, and in fact, you can make everything sound thin and overly processed when you put inserts on every individual track. Doesn't mean I won't eq or compress a snare or kick individually, but now I try to make the least amount of "waves in the pond" as it were. I'm with you on processing the mix busses more than the individual tracks, I think it helps you to "see the instruments" quicker than working on everything as if they existed separately from everything else, to be extreme about my point. Are you using the Slate digital ssl emulator from the VCC? I love the VCC plugs.