Cubase 7 sounds better than 8 here at first sight

[lukasbrooklyn]

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@lukasbrooklyn

regarding hw: i keep having issues with setting the correct ping delay of my hardware units. i’d make sure to re-ping your processors. to me, your issue sounds a lot like your HW may be incorrectly compensated for, hence creating some undesirable phase shifts that may smear the sound.

and lastly, i’d really try running the test without hardware inserts alogether as well, because otherwise you’re asking for 1:1 repeatability from hardware…

lukas, i have a pretty complex session here all mixed. it uses 28 outputs with quite some analog outboard. final summing is done via a studer 961 desk. i opened the session in cubase 7 and 8 pro, both have identical buffer settings. I re-recorded it through my lavry a/d literally one after the other with not a slightest change. the result is pretty shocking. the cubase 7 session sounds much better. more body and clarity. the 8 session sound washed out. up til now 3 mastering engineers have confirmed this.

i also did a quick internal mix with a different session using the digital summing and no outboard. same result. for me this is pretty bad since i am working for a mastering studio. i don’t care about cpu-efficient performance. i need cubases old audio quality back in version 8. for now i am trying to give the upgrade back. shame because i would really need VCA faders…

i see. that’s really quite complex and difficult to troubleshoot.

on first listen, my session that was just using two outboard compressors sounded somehow better to me with c8, but i didn’t bother trying to null.