There is a lot of folks who say that they can tell the difference between DAW's because of their sound, and there are those that say there is no difference...the endless debate....so here is what I propose....

Lets take 3 or 4 pieces of recorded music, ripped straight from CD's. Place the tracks in as many DAW's as possible, from Kristal to ProTools, Windows-Mac-Linux, etc & render them down to your standard 44.1/16bit .wav files.

I suggest an orchestral classical piece, and good old R&R piece, an acoustic piece like fingerstyle guitar or piano, and a dance-rap-hiphop piece. They would only have to be say, what, 1 or 2 min long snips each, right?

So what do you folks say, would this work? If I'm wrong, then I'm wrong, but I feel that a lot of folks will be able to tell a difference between the files.

The rules?

The ones creating the files agree to run them thru an OUT OF THE BOX SETUP! No tweaks, no adjustments, just the DAW software as it originally sets itself up. Try to match the volume of each manually so the levels stay consistent, no software help. And none of this run it thru the same software 4 times and say that it is different DAW's. Lets keep it up & up.

The listeners agree to use NO type of metering, spectrum analyzers, etc, just using their ears on whatever monitoring they feel comfortable with. They also agree to do the listening test alone, no sharing thoughts, or pooling notes, on the tracks with others.

And EVERYONE agrees that this is a fun test, and will keep it in this spirit, since there will be folks from both sides that will find fault with any result!

What say ye?

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This has been posted on the following forums..

TTM

Kristal

Reaper

PG Music

Gearslutz

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