[RWP] My Next Investment, a Wreck of a Mac

[Scott Chesworth]

Allow me to be the first to respectfully call you crazy :)

On 9/4/14, Indigo <33indigo at charter.net> wrote:
> I listen to recordings I know were rendered on a Mac, any old Mac, and
> those rendered on any Windows computer, and anybody can tell me I'm
> crazy, but all those rendered on Macs are both a dozen times louder and
> way clearer.
> For example, when I google for PropellerHeads Reason installed in
> Windows, there's a world of difference in the usual background music in
> PropellerHeads videos, all done on Macs.
> I'm tired of hearing the huge loss of quality I hear when rendering to
> .wav, .aiff, .flac, whatever foremat, on any Windows computer.
> Before I render the sound, , like Camel Audio's Alchemy, LinPlug's
> Albino, and a hundred other VST's, they're absolutely gorgeous in
> Windows, so the issue doesn't exist before rendering.
> I've tried all the rendering options in Sonar, also the very slowest and
> highest-quality rendering in Reaper, same result, the rendered file
> loses volume, loses bass, loses presence, it's something to do with
> Windows itself, whether XP 32, Windows 7 64 bit, Windows 8, all the
> recordings I hear show it.
> Why does anyone suppose that you see Macs everywhere in commercial studios?
> Noone doing real professional work even bothers to say it, it's assumed,
> Windows sucks.
> Well, I'm not going to inflict navigating around Reaper on a Mac on
> myself, I'll continue to do all but final rendering in Reaper on my I7
> Windows machine.
> I'm just going to hit my local Craig's List and pick up an old Mac in
> whatever affordable condition, connect its soundcard to my Windows
> computer soundcard by SPDIF, then do all the pre-rendering work on
> Windows, then shoot the files over to the Mac and render them to .aiff.
> It's an interesting and affordable experiment anyway.
> The only way to prove or disprove a theory is to do the experiment.
> Indi
>
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