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All the flashy tools definitely help me achieve a sound that you arenвЂ™t gonna get from a Scarlett 2i2 and some plugins but they also help artists understand that thereвЂ™s a difference between their bedroom studio and a real one.

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ItвЂ™s easier for them to admit that all the expensive tools make a difference than it is to admit that they simply arenвЂ™t going to reach the same skill level of a properly trained and educated professional engineer by watching infomercials on YouTube. These days everyone seems to think theyвЂ™re an engineer without an engineering education nor training.

The process of closing Nuendo and opening S1 to finish mastering.

The 2 motivating factors for me currently are I donвЂ™t care for S1 but, because I can do all the processing in Nuendo before sending the tracks over to S1, itвЂ™s not stopping me from getting work done. Where I need the push is to motivate me to pull the trigger. Whether or not WaveLab is the better option over another DAW isnвЂ™t where I need the push though.

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Maybe itвЂ™s improved in more recent versions (I never liked it enough to update after StudioOne2) but IвЂ™ll absolutely NEVER use song-mode for tracking/mixing so, if I can choose a mastering DAW that allows me to fully integrate my mastering suite with Nuendo and Spectralayers, that seems like the better option. S1 on its own is inadequate most definitely.

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While some of the stuff I mention in this article can be done in S1, you may find some other things that WaveLab can do and S1 cannot: Pro Audio Files вЂ“ 27 Oct 18 For time sensitive loudness readings like Integrated LUFS, it was crazy to me that youвЂ™d have to manually reset the metering when you press play in S1. Oh, and it drove me nuts that in S1 the LUFS readings did not restart on playback.

I canвЂ™t recall all the limitations here but it wasnвЂ™t pretty. I remember for one project with songs that crossfade, the only way we could get a clean master was to make a DDP first in S1 and then export each track from the DDP as a WAV. Not great:Д®xporting the files was strange when it came to marker management as well as songs that overlap/crossfade. YouвЂ™d be stuck using the internal SRC of Studio One. etc/) and then have S1 recreate the montage at 44.1k to make the DDP and 1644 WAV files.

There was no way to process at the highest available sample rate such as 96k or 88.2k, then externally sample rate convert that file (via RX, Saracon, or the WaveLab Batch Processor. I didnвЂ™t see a way to just point Studio One to a new external file to use which is helpful for when clients send a new mix file, or if you want to make the instrumental version of an album. I donвЂ™t have time to list them all but three things stood out clearly to me:ДЄt least at the time, there was no way to replace a song file in the mastering project mode with a new mix file (unless you were mixing in S1 of course).

I convinced the school to get WaveLab Pro for the classroom for future semesters. I tried with a very open mind to learn/use Studio One in the mastering project mode but in the end, it still felt like a toy and I kept having to mention caveats that you wouldnвЂ™t have to do in something like WaveLab. When I unexpectedly took over the mastering class I had to use Studio One for the first semester because that is what the previous instructor was using. I taught mastering at a tech college for a few years.