Hi - first time poster, so I hope I’m doing this right.
When I’m mixing an entire album, my usual procedure is to choose one song, get it all the way mixed to completion, and then copy those levels / plugins / settings to the others. That way every subsequent song on the album starts out half mixed already, and the album is consistent across all the songs.
But for the last four albums I’ve mixed, the way I did this was: grab a spiral notebook and write down, by hand, every fader position and plugin setting and bus send. With pen and paper. Then open each song and recreate them from the notes. Yesterday I spent eight hours doing this.
Is there a better way to achieve this in CbB?
I know in other DAWs you can sometimes import a template and ‘assign’ the incoming tracks to the tracks that are in your project… or something… I didn’t really follow it. I even tried exporting the finished song’s tracks as a Track Template — thinking I could then import it and just drag all the plugins over to the next song’s tracks — but I kept crashing Cakewalk. Maybe a track template of that size and complexity is too much, I don’t know.
TL;DR: what is your process for mixing a whole album and making the levels and plugins consistent between songs? Is there a fast/efficient way to do this?
