in the multiple "studies" i've read, they're typically compared by phase inverting one of the tracks and mixing them. in every case that i've read about, they've summed to silence, which means the tracks are identical.
i actually feel like i can hear what Martin's talking about, so I keep looking for the reason, myself (I'd love to avoid rewiring all my tracks through Logic, because that basically means I'll have to buy a new computer to finish my current batch of tracks). thinking through the math, it seems that the difference would either be a loss of detail through the summing algorithm, or a difference in frequency response. the latter seems really unlikely. don't know about the former. they say its 32bit float but there could be something weird going on there. i know this is ot, but if any heads on here actually know some science about this, i'd love to hear it. --- "Thomas D. Cox, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 1/31/07, punkdISCO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > 1) WAV file imported into DAW_A > > 2) WAV then processed using some hi end pluggin > > 3) track bounced to a new WAV > > > > This is repeated in Live and other DAWs and then > the bounced versions are > > compared. > > how are they compared? it seems like RMSE (root mean > square error) > would compare them well, and even a small difference > can amount to > great error %....... > > i personally dont care which is better, so all im > interested in is the > testing process...... > > tom >
