Pre Sonus Studio One

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Sooooooooooooo.....

...Neil Citron brought a band from Mexico and he showed me this program that Presonus makes...and he said it "sounded" better than pro tools. (for all of the non pro tools users you are probably thinking "of course!") but i was a little skeptical at first. So we recorded some tracks to tape. imported them to pro tools and to Studio One. We did the same panning, no fx, no nothing. just the tracks playing back and MY GOD!!! the difference was huge!! all the tracks were recorded at 96k (just for the sake of getting the most out of the converters (digi192's) and pro tools just sounds like anus! it's muffled, nasally and just bad!

Studio One definitely sounds waaaay better than pro tools. More defined, the low end was punchy, the highs were crystal clear and the mids were just perfect!. There are a few flaws in S1 that i wish were changed, like the way i edit in pro tools its so much easier. But i could see my self mixing my next protect in Studio One after this, just because the difference is huge!

Before everyone says (clips or GTFO) its a very stressed session because they have to record 14 songs in 6 days. But believe me! i want everyone to hear this...so i will try to make clips as soon as i can. But check out Studio One, download the demo and do the test yourself (if you are using pro tools) you'll be amazed!

Jerry
 
Have you done a null test? If you're not familiar...

Print the stereo mix out of each DAW as wave files to separate tracks, then flip the phase on one of them. Play both tracks simultaneously. If you hear any audio whatsoever, I'd be shocked - you should get pure digital black and both files should be identical. I'd have a hard time believing that the summing is any different between DAWs. Not saying it's impossible, but unlikely.

The reason I say this is, summing audio is quite literally WAV1 + WAV2 + WAV3 etc... it's just addition of numbers. It would be harder to get a computer to do this incorrectly than to have it do it correctly. You'd have to intentionally write a new math routine to force the computer to do it wrong.

On another note, Studio One is fantastic, and my developer contact people at Presonus are incredibly cool.
 
1+1=2 no matter what DAW you use. What you're hearing is probably just a difference in the pan law of each application. But I use Studio One, and I love it's workflow. It's awesome.
 
I felt the same way when I did my first mix on S1, but put it down to placebo effect. It was fairly convincing though, how quickly I got a mix up and running on it, and moreover how open it sounded too. Could be mostly to do with its integrated workflow though.
 
really?? i just found out about the program and there's a lot of you guys using it!!

yeah lasse, could you elaborate more on that? because the pannings were the same on both daws.

Been using it for over a year and a half now. Moved over to it during the final months of version 1, then went to version 2. It's like a mixture of Cubase and Logic, but more Logical than both of them.