Wadax vs Vivaldi

[August (August H)]

That does tend to agree with what Tony Faulkner recently said in this forum in regards to digital processing.

@TonyF

details like inter-sample overs are fixable and worth fixing, but hardly the greatest of digital audio’s problems of turning music to shouty anonymous compressed mush when you monkey around with it too much.

I have returned to analogue live mixing which is helping to keep the quality flag flying. I have not migrated to using networked recording systems rather than analogue microphone cabling and I believe that is worthwhile. Most of my colleagues have gone down the network route, with multiple remote active stage boxes which have to do quite a lot of tricks with clocking - and clocking is a vulnerability for digital audio sound quality.

I am still not a digi-phobe. However I am more aware that when you mess with digits, the perceived sound quality and sense of dynamics degrade worrying quickly - digital audio is fragile. Once an engineer adds digital reverb to try to liven the mix up the party is over - everything becomes flat, formulaic and generic.