It reminded me of one of the AES videos from several years ago, there’s discussion of a false comparison where a large, wall type switch with a nice positive click was labeled A-B claiming to switching between some “high-end analogue system” and some “high-end digital system.” Both were playing back from, if I recall, a good, but standard CD player of the time over some normal professional-grade headphones. I trust double-blind or ABX testing though.Įxcellent testing set-up. That’s what happens when people truly not only don’t know if they’re listening to A or B, but also don’t know if it’s the same from what they just heard.Īs far as bias goes I trust my ears as far as I can throw them (not far). Nobody consistently even separated A from B, let alone identified which was analog and which was digital. I said nothing about the order, and the name in the region wasn’t obvious. I then had several people listen to that 8 or 12 bar loop (I forget how long it was) and write down what was what and how they felt about it. Then I took the analog and digital versions, “A” and “D” and strung them out on a timeline in Pro Tools. I set both up so that they got similar amount of compression for the same input level. I recorded a drum kit and sent the drums through a bus with either the real thing or the software. I once tested my real Neve 33609 stereo compressor with Universal Audio’s UAD-2 emulation of it. The other, and very often most powerful, variable that needs to be taken into account is Cognitive/Confirmation Bias… Unless a listening test is conducted double blind then the results are essentially meaningless. Unless you’re changing the level at some point you won’t be able to tell the difference. Ever.Īnd again: The way to figure out if that’s the case is NOT to add things like effects and VSTi, you just import files, pan them hard left or hard right, then sum those signals together in each DAW, and then you compare the resulting files. So, if you’re saying that Cubase and Logic sums signals differently then you’re just wrong.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |