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AlexLakis · 17th August 2005

I was using Nuendo on a PC DAW until I moved to Los Angeles and realized that 19 out of 20 studios/clients are using ProTools on Macs, both of which I've never worked on before. I started using ProTools, and found that it was much more streamlined and easy to use in a professional situation. Macs work with ProTools. They're the stupid powerful box that sits there and is a DAW. I don't like em, but they work. The main reason to buy a mac and use ProTools, in my opinion, is so that you can be compatable with what a client is going to bring to you 95% of the time. As far as what sounds better, I've had great sounding mixes come out of both, I believe it's mostly a function of the D/A-A/D converters, and how you've treated the audio in general througout it's journey. Regardless, people have made platinum albums on both PT and Nuendo, so they're both good enough to get the job done. Just a matter of preference and individual professional demand. Personally, ProTools was enough to turn this mac-hater into a mac-tolerator.

17th August 2005	#27
AlexLakis Lives for gear Joined: Mar 2005 Location: Annapolis, MD/Los Angeles, CA Posts: 3,631	I was using Nuendo on a PC DAW until I moved to Los Angeles and realized that 19 out of 20 studios/clients are using ProTools on Macs, both of which I've never worked on before. I started using ProTools, and found that it was much more streamlined and easy to use in a professional situation. Macs work with ProTools. They're the stupid powerful box that sits there and is a DAW. I don't like em, but they work. The main reason to buy a mac and use ProTools, in my opinion, is so that you can be compatable with what a client is going to bring to you 95% of the time. As far as what sounds better, I've had great sounding mixes come out of both, I believe it's mostly a function of the D/A-A/D converters, and how you've treated the audio in general througout it's journey. Regardless, people have made platinum albums on both PT and Nuendo, so they're both good enough to get the job done. Just a matter of preference and individual professional demand. Personally, ProTools was enough to turn this mac-hater into a mac-tolerator.