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

[Chris Belle]

You guys?

Been there and done that before too many times.

Once this old cat get's an idea in his head, it is reality, and no 
amount of evidence or reason will change it.

If he believes it, then it's so.

He'll just get mad, or go ask the same question elsewhere.

It's the same thing about plugging in his pedal and trying to convert it 
to usb all over again.

You're going to waste your energy trying to convince him, the only good 
thing is that newbies who might be lurking trying to learn will get a 
concensus
     of what's right and what's not.

If it makes him happy, then more power to him.


On 9/4/2014 9:21 PM, TheOreoMonster wrote:
> Ok now in all seriousness and all snark aside, I'm gonna have to ditto what Scott said here. I have taken projects i did in reaper  and opened them up on the mac and rendered them out again. If you hear a difference its all  in your head. Maybe its just some self fulfilling prophacy, where you want a mac, but you are on the fence and you need to justify buying one? Unless you are doing a proper master of your tracks Simply bouncing a project out of any DAW, on Mac Or Windows is not going to be as loud or  or etc as it sounded in the DAW. Thats why Mastering engineers get paid the big bucks. If all you gonna do is use the mac for your rendering box, save yourself the money.
> On Sep 4, 2014, at 9:49 AM, 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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