Recording Handbook - Hol.gr

Q3.4 What should I know about doing an external pre-mix versus
an internal bounce? (Or "Using a second recording device for
mixdown?")
An "internal bounce" is using the 4-track itself to reduce the number
of tracks.
An "external pre-mix" is playing to an external device (e.g. VCR, DAT
recorder) in stereo, then playing that recording back into the 4-track
onto two tracks. This leaves two tracks free.
sratte@mindvox.phantom.com (Swamp Ratte) writes:
Somebody was asking why you'd wanna do an external pre-mix and return
it instead of doing an internal bounce. Well, I've recently started
running into problems doing bounces with my Tascam Porta Two.
This band's demo I've been doing, we definitely want a huge gigantic
wall-of-fuzz-guitar sound. Thing is, it's just one guitarist with no
real leads, just clean parts and dirty parts (it's pop-punk music).
So we laid a track of all-clean, straight through the songs. Then set
up two half-stacks with different distortion sounds and EQ setups on
each one. Ran a line splitter on the guitar out so one went to both
amps and one line went into a SansAmp and then was mixed in with the
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