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DAW or Daw
Ok, here's a terribly trivial question.
I understand DAW stands for "Digital Audio Workstation" but does one say, "Daw" (like an actual word) or, "D. A. W." (As three separate letters like VCR)? Just wondering... PJ |
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Use "Daw" among people using one.
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In my admittedly limited experience, only two classes of people use the short forms of words like DAW: The ultra-cool guys from Hollyweird whom everyone looks up to and the nerdish wannabees, who typically use the syntax, "Heh... Heh... I've got a really cool Daw in my bedroom. Wanna come see?" Regardless of the source, the first typical response is:
Then, in the case of the nerd, the second response typically is sneered: "Nerd! Push your glasses back up." Okay, just messing with you. But never having been a cool Holyweird mixer or sound editor and being a tad bookish, I've always feared being classed with the nerds (and I do wear glasses). Truthfully, I've never really been mistaken for cool, so I call this device a Digital Audio Workstation out of school and simply a workstation when I'm with my colleagues. Oh, and I do sometimes call one the box to the engineers at work when I'm discussing that new plug-in that "blew up the box" so it no longer works. Bob
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Well Bob pro audio engineers exist in their own little worlds with their own inside vocab.
Juss messin' with ya. I think it is safe to say for the vast majority of "prosumer" home recordists, that the acronym is pronounced as a single word as often if not more than as letters or the words the acronym represent . And they do so without pretence of cool or wanting to be anything Functionally shorting the three letters to a single word, is little different in actual intent, than shorting the three word name to a single word.
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Quote:
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