David Morgan (MAMS) wrote:

I have posted two, one minute(+) clips of a song on my web site to provide
you a comparison test from which I would appreciate your input. (Links
below).

Fun music!

The digi mix definitely has something missing, but if I had to guess I'd say I'm hearing something added (MF/HF distortion on transients?) in the analog mix.



The original source material was recorded at home by the client on ADAT
at 16bit, 44.1K. Before arriving in Montana, the studio which the client had
chosen to use agreed to dump the tracks onto an Alesis HD-24 prior to the
mix dates.

When we arrived there, the tracks had been dumped at 16 / 48k.

What was used for the SRC?





The tools used were a Sony DMX-r100 (clock source)

Nice EQ, nice converters, nice board.





The Finalizer could not be removed from the
chain by order of the owner, and the Masterlink had no GUI peripherals.
The Finalizer was supposedly set up only for limiting to avoid clipping of
the Masterlink and nothing else... I took his word for that

This is where the sinking feeling started for me...