Re: [LAU] Mixbus 32C (based on Ardour) and Reaper shootout

On Thu, 27 Oct 2016 20:34:12 -0700 (PDT) Len Ovens <len(a)ovenwerks.net> wrote: Oddly (to me, anyway), they chose to put some "third-party mastering plugin" in the Mixbus chain. For me, some of MB's strengths are its mastering EQ and and the lovely compressors, which have helped me do some decent mastering on my mixes, though I am NOT a mastering engineer. I didn't hear him say which plugin was used, nor whether it's the same one used in Reaper. Aside from the fact that I think the 'shootout' isn't going to show anything, he starts with trying to compare apples to apples, then rubs a bunch of orange flavor on apple A and a bunch of grape flavor on apple B with the plugins, and thinks he'll still have a valid comparison. The mixes weren't too far off from what I could tell, but a YouTube video is not condusive to A/B testing. I think the biggest thing that this proves is that despite being new to Mixbus, he was able to come up with a mix pretty quickly that rivals what he got from Reaper, which he's been using for years. No matter which gets chosen as "sounding better," Mixbus is already a winner. I've been using Ardour almost exclusively since the 0.9x days. One of the biggest things that turned me into a Mixbus user was that my workflow hardly changed at all. The transition was really easy, plus my sessions imported nicely! Anyway, nice publicity for MB. -- ====================================================================== Joe Hartley - UNIX/network Consultant - jh(a)brainiac.com Without deviation from the norm, "progress" is not possible. - FZappa