Yeah Basil, I'm a bit of a control freak in that regard.

I think it's probably because I'm not too confident in my eqing skills, and the fact that what you think might sound good one day, sometime turns out to sound shit the next day. Plus I only have small crappy monitors which invariably screw up the mixes I do...

Maybe I'm expecting too much from my machine.

This suggestion about using Freeze looks interesting though. I have tried to use it in the past, but invariably I have aborted any attempts to use it as it has always said that it will take 10 mins or so to freeze the VST instrument or whatever. In most cases I would bve just as well bouncing down to audio, as it takes less time. Or can someone point what I'm doing wrong, or the best way to use Freeze?

Cheers folks

BombJack