I actually like Awake's production and mixing. It feels pretty raw and dark, it serves the album pretty well.
It's the actual musical quality of about 50% of the album that makes me stay away from it for the most part.
I don't get why SDOIT's production is praised so much on the other hand. I'm really not a big fan of the drum sound, especially the kick drums, it works okay on songs like The Great Debate, but god that TGP breakdown sounds terrible drum-wise (especially those punch-ins, you can tell very easily that's not one take).
It's nice to hear Myung and Rudess clearly for once though.
TOT is my favourite production if you're going for heaviness and Octavarium / ADTOE are probably the best for the overall DT sound imho.