backwoods
Guitardood- just import waves from one daw to the other, use same plugs and routing and pan laws.
It will give you some hard evidence which will persuade more people than your opinion.
Which waves should I import? Yours? Downloaded from somewhere? A dance mix, despite the fact that I can barely tolerate that style? I chose a tune I liked that had more than just guitar bass and drums and for which I had a decent MIDI backing track as well as the original Santana recording to use for comparison.
Part of my conjecture was that somewhere in the recording/mixing/exporting process, a low-pass filter is being applied whether it be an actual filter or artifacting due to compression-vs-clipping or some other unknown cause. That is why I re-recorded on each platform.
As for persuading anyone, to be perfectly honest, the only person I feel the need to persuade is myself. My study was primarily for MY benefit. I posted my thoughts and findings, as do many folks here, in the hopes that my experience might help someone else. Trust that with the multitude of piss-and-vinegar responses, it'll probably be an extremely cold day in hell before that happens again.
My opinions are at least my own. Take them, leave them. Believe it or not, I truly could not care less either way.
I will say this. A wise man once told this cocky 18-year old Mr. Know-It-All:"You know, you know, you know!! Someday somebody is going to have something to tell you that you do not know and they're not going to tell you because......You Know!"
Best,
guitardood