[The dman]

I've been using nuendo 2 and I really like the program but after hearing so much about samplitude I decided to check out the demo and i have to say I'm impressed.

I decided to compare the sound of the two since I've heard so much about the sound of samplitude. Right off the bat samplitude sounds more open in the high end and not as muffy. More dynamic sounding for lack of a better word.

The reason for this post is that I want to make sure that the test is apples for apples because I know there's a lot of knowledgable people that come here and it seems like this forum has more samplitude and nuendo users than other forums I go to. Plus this is a kick ass forum

Here's what I did

Recorded 2 takes of 2 songs through nuendo and samplitude: Acoustic guitar and vocal

The tracks were recorded mono and the returns were panned hard left and hard right returning to a d8b monitored through genelec 1030a and rca bookshelf speakers.

Vocal chain: U87 to vintech 1272 to adl 1000 to motu HD192

Acoustic chain: AKG 451 to vintech 1272 to adl 1000 to motu HD 192

Fed daw returns lightpipe to the d8b AES EBU a masterlink @ 24 bit

No pluins, eq etc and all the faders were at 0 on both programs and the d8b.


1. I realize that takes can vary but I was extremley careful to maintain the same mic distance. I didn't have to move to switch programs so no bumped mics or nothing

2. I did this on two songs with the same outcome

3. I decided to send the mix through the d8b and the masterlink as opposed to the programs mix engines so the sound wasn't altered by the different mix engines. I will do this with the internal mixing also to compare.


I've heard that there's a difference in the pan laws bettween these two programs. What do I have to change? Will it make a difference because I didn't use the internal mixdown?



There's no question in my mind that samplitude souds better in the tests that I've done so far. The samplitude mix is slightly louder but it's not the volume that makes it sound better, it's the clarity.


Any observations or tips would be apreciated. Maybe I'm overlooking one link in the chain. I've heard the arguments back and forth about daw summing and all I know is I hear a difference bettween the two programs.


Thanks