2022 SOS Awards: Winners & Highly Commended

Winner — Best Audio Interface = Audient iD14 MkII - www.audient.com
Winner — Best DAW = Apple Logic Pro X - www.apple.com
Winner — Best Effects & Processing Hardware = Rupert Neve Designs 5254 - www.rupertneve.com
Winner — Best Plug‑In = Fabfilter Timeless 3 - www.fabfilter.com

Winner — Best Music Software = Steinberg WaveLab Pro 11 - www.steinberg.de
Winner — Best Software Instrument = EastWest Hollywood Orchestra Opus Edition - www.soundsonline.com
Winner — Best Guitar Technology Product = Neural DSP Quad Cortex - www.neuraldsp.com
Winner — Best Keyboard/Synth = Arturia PolyBrute - www.arturia.com

Winner — Best Performance Controller = Arturia KeyStep 37 - www.arturia.com
Winner — Best Drum Machine/Sampler/Sequencer - Native Instruments Maschine+ - www.native-instruments.com
Winner — Best Microphone = Warm Audio WA‑67 - www.warmaudio.com
Winner — Best Mixer/Mixing Controller = SSL UF8 - www.solidstatelogic.com
Winner — Best Monitor = Kali Audio IN‑5 - www.kaliaudio.com
Winner — Best Microphone Preamp = Rupert Neve Designs RMP‑D8 - www.rupertneve.com

Winner — Best Hardware Recorder = Zoom F6 - www.zoom.co.jp
Winner — Best Headphones = Sennheiser HD 560S - www.sennheiser.com
Winner — Best Live Sound Product = JBL PRX One - www.jblpro.com

Source; www.soundonsound.com/reviews/2022-sos-awards-winners-highly-commended

 

Haha, take that disAbleton users

(FYI: This is a joke. No DAW wars please)

Anyone can vouch for the Sennheiser HD 560S? I'm looking for some open-back headphones for longer sessions I'm in the cans. Exclusively been using the M50x which is great but wanna try open-back to see if it really helps with fatigue

 

No matter what they reinvent everything to continue to sell their products against the competition. Even better, even more resolution and so on: Here is the classic with feel-good guarantee: Beyerdynamic - DT 990 Pro https://north-america.beyerdynamic.com/dt-990-pro.html

 

You gotta remember that this isn't actually a reality in these products being "the best" if "Best Microphone = Warm Audio WA‑67". I can say that without actually ever having used it. It's always just a popularity contest based on ideas promulgated by advertising and those whose livelihoods depend on it. It kinda reminds me of Titanic winning the Oscar for best picture in 1998 even though it wasn't so good to either my taste or esthetic of what constitutes the best . I'm sure that the Warm WA-67 is a perfectly good microphone, though the best...really?

Rant, fertig.

 

Important to keep in mind these "winners" are based on a polling of SOS readers, not SOS editorial staff opinions. There's been many times I've seen on Facebook and Twitter the audio company's involved storming people to go and vote for them. The results you wind up with are more like some sort of popularity contest than a measurement of quality.

 

Logic is a https://www.musicradar.com/news/the-best-daws-the-best-music-production-software-for-pc-and-mac

 

Last edited: Nov 30, 2022

Thank you for your wise words.

Unfortunately, we will probably never know if such an elected SOS user survey
will increase the sales figures of SOS Awards winners and by how much.

- I would also like to know how many of the votes were bought.
- I demand an alternative survey of users who use cracked software.
- I demand total transparency, please disclose your turnover and sales figures.
- I also think an election procedure with ID card like in the real election would be timely.

 

No best network switch award? Shame

Eew

 

This can't be true! My DAW should be... numb... number 1... ahhh... ahh