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

[Chris Belle]

Laughing my ass off over here.

On 9/4/2014 7:47 PM, Scott Chesworth wrote:
> 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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