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Old 07-11-2017, 07:23 PM
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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)?

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Old 07-11-2017, 07:36 PM
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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.



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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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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 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.
Oh, yeah. I was more joking about my own tragic un-hipness than anything else. Here I am living a third of my life on DAWs and have no idea how the rest of the world "out there" pronounces the word. I've come to realize that "bookish" is defined by having a large vocabulary, the majority of which you've never heard spoken by a living human being.

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