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Originally Posted by Tom Graham
It's a double blind test. It's designed to not judge which you prefer, but to see if you can correctly identify what is what without knowing if it switched or not. If the Neve is heads above the Pro Tools mixes, you should be able to pick it every time.
From Wikipedia :
Double-blind describes an especially stringent way of conducting an experiment, usually on human subjects, in an attempt to eliminate subjective bias on the part of both experimental subjects and the experimenters
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Right, but this is why this is clearly NOT a Double blind test since you expect there NEEDS to be bias assuming we MUST believe the NEVE sounds better.
If we follow the logic here I suppose we are supposed to pick the best sounding mix as the NEVE ...Heat as the 2nd best sounding and Protools only as the third. But this doesnt account for the fact that HEAT may sound the best...for example.
In other words I clearly knew which mix sounded the best but how would I have ANY way to know if the HEAT mix was the best or the NEVE.
More importantly you cant come to the conclusion that they all sound the same since so many people get most of it wrong. It's very obvious they sound very different. Its entirely more likely that the reason for the low scores is people dont know which is which... not that they sound the same.