Do different DAWs sound different?

[Mr No Name]

23 hours ago, Shane_B. said:

The one I used in the 80's died. I got a replacement a few years ago on marketplace and transferred some of my old masters. I was able to use O9A to seperate some tracks, clean things up, and add to them. It was a lot of fun.

One song my brother and I recorded back in the 80's and left out a key change in the song. I used O9A to correct it and you can't tell software was used. I certainly got my money's worth out of O9A imho.

I was wondering what "O9A" is ?   do you have a link to it by any chance ? sounds interesting.

[fjz]

3 hours ago, Mr No Name said:

I was wondering what "O9A" is ?   do you have a link to it by any chance ? sounds interesting.

I think it's iZotope's Ozone 9 Advanced.

It looks like Ozone is at version 11 now.

https://www.izotope.com/en/products/ozone.html

[Mr No Name]

1 hour ago, fjz said:

I think it's iZotope's Ozone 9 Advanced.

It looks like Ozone is at version 11 now.

https://www.izotope.com/en/products/ozone.html

those pesky fashionable abbreviators.

[craigb]

59 minutes ago, Mr No Name said:

those pesky fashionable abbreviators.

LOL @MNN! 😁

[Shane_B.]

Yes, sorry, I was referring to Oxone 9 Advanced.

I once worked for a large company that had so many abbreviations they had to put out a memo of definitions. True story.

[craigb]

6 hours ago, Shane_B. said:

Yes, sorry, I was referring to Oxone 9 Advanced.

I once worked for a large company that had so many abbreviations they had to put out a memo of definitions. True story.

When I was contracted to a defense contractor back in the 1980's, I was the guy who compiled and distributed the list of abbreviation definitions!  Heck, they even had abbreviations where some of the letters were additional abbreviations!  SMH... 🤷‍♂️

[Bapu]

On 8/21/2025 at 1:40 AM, craigb said:

And I have paper!  So, I've got you covered. 😆😜

My scissors were cut up by that remark.

[craigb]

21 hours ago, Bapu said:

My scissors were cut up by that remark.

Should you be playing with scissors at your age Ed? 😜

[Starship Krupa]

On 8/21/2025 at 6:54 PM, Shane_B. said:

I once worked for a large company that had so many abbreviations they had to put out a memo of definitions.

Childhood friend of mine worked for a small company that had a contract with the US Navy (aka USN). It was sometimes hard to follow his descriptions of how his contributions were being used.

At one point I asked him to slow down and explain the acronyms, which I, naturally, was not familiar with. He said to me, "yeah, the Navy really loves their TLA's."

I almost made it as far as asking him what "TLA" meant before figuring it out and chuckling instead. I'd not heard a meta acronym before, but having taken a couple of programming courses, I was familiar with the concept of recursion.

[craigb]

Note that we were working with the Navy when I was at that defense contractor!

They even had the term "NAVSEARS" which was...  (wait for it...) a Sears catalog!  SMH! 🤷‍♂️

[Starship Krupa]

On 8/27/2025 at 1:24 AM, craigb said:

Note that we were working with the Navy when I was at that defense contractor!

They even had the term "NAVSEARS" which was...  (wait for it...) a Sears catalog!  SMH! 🤷‍♂️

Why am I not surprised?

When my mother was working for the Navy as a civilian contractor (college instructor), and it's probably still the case, The abbreviation for Navy Surface Fleet Command was COMNAVSURF.

She later married a retired Lt. Commander, and I've used that when helping them set up their wifi SSID's. It's always COMNAVSURF.