I do think the volume thing you are noticing is due to something you are just not noticing. But I both compose & edit/mix in PT bc of the above mentioned perceived sound differences I notice. Same thing with speaker building & design.Īll things being equal except the DAW themselves, I find LX to be rather lifeless & flat compared to PT. I've also made my bones in the sound quality world designing & building high end car audio systems that have won several world championships judged solely on their sound quality, tonal balance, "realness"' in their instrument reproduction, imaging etc. This is a comparison of Logic X, PT10, PT11. If you are not clipping I find PT gives you much more volume. I've used both extensively & I find much the opposite as far as volume is concerned whether in the DAW or bouncing. So if you mix the same tracks and leave 3 dB of headroom on the master fader in both logic and pro tools, but have the "normalize" option turned on in logic, the logic mix will be 3 dB louder and "sound better". I've never used logic, but from other discussions, I've heard it mentioned that it has a "normalize" option when bouncing your mix. Yet another reason that, while Logic is a great DAW and has alot of strengths, it's workflow weaknesses really kill it. Being so short, the resolution when moving faders sucks. ![]() Oh, and what is up with the tiny faders in the Logic mixer? They remind me more of short-throw console faders than the standard long-throws one would use during a mix. It's not actually "louder" it's just a sum of it's "louder" default gain values. ![]() So, if one is working mostly with the included instruments, the super-hot default output levels could lead one to believe that Logic is just "louder". I'd only fired up a drum track and two guitar tracks before I looked at the 2 buss and saw that it was sitting in the red nearly all the time, and the Drum Designer instance was clipping itself on the factory preset! The same thing happened on a dance track I was working on, after loading up just 3 or 4 VIs the whole session was just really hot, and I'd have to go in and start re-gain-staging all of the VIs and individual drums in Drum Designer. It seems that the default output of the included VIs and modelers is really hot. I recently worked on a pretty vanilla rock/indie track, with an instance of Drum Designer, and five Amp Designer instances. However, recalling using Logic X on a few recent tunes, I can see how one might find that to be the case, and here's why. I recall hearing some mention in the OP about Logic being "louder" than PT is, and in my last post I didn't address it.
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