on to a cd

[august]

how do i get a session onto a cd with good qualtity? walkthrough anybody?

[bennychico11]

you want just the session? or do you mean to burn an audio CD to playback in a CD player?

if just the session, burn as a data CD
if just an audio CD, bounce to a 44.1kHz/16bit WAV file and burn as an audio CD.

[august]

yea as an audio cd, see cause when we recorded it sounded great on the monitors then like absoulute crap when we finally managed to get it on a disk

[bennychico11]

what did you bounce to?

[lucky13]

Originally Posted by august

yea as an audio cd, see cause when we recorded it sounded great on the monitors then like absoulute crap when we finally managed to get it on a disk

I have that problem sometimes, what I do is throw a limiter on the master fader and tweak it until the bounce comes out right. It's time consuming but it works. Also, make sure you dither it down if you're recording at anything above 44.1/16.

[august]

it still didnt work, when i put the CD in the player it said it was blank

[heroics321]

There should be no real difference between what you're hearing upon playback and what gets burned to a CD. Bounce to disk as a 16 bit 44.1khz wav file. If it sounds bad on other systems, buy some new monitors or rethink your mixing habits. What CD burning software are you using?

[bennychico11]

Originally Posted by august

it still didnt work, when i put the CD in the player it said it was blank

you're burning it wrong then
bounce to 44.1kHz/16bit WAV file. Use something like iTunes (free) to burn an audio CD (NOT a data CD)

[august]

right yea i bounced to 44.1 khz and 16 bit through windows media, but the cd came out blank

[lucky13]

Originally Posted by august

right yea i bounced to 44.1 khz and 16 bit through windows media, but the cd came out blank

When bouncing it, I would suggest bouncing it to your desktop. Then open Windows Media Player, or whatever burning software you have. Then drag and drop the file into that application. Finally tell that application to burn a CD. There's no reason why this shouldn't work, unless there's a hardware problem with your burner.

[midwesttribune]

go to file bounce to disk, set to stereo interleaved increase to how many bits as far as quality that you want, click ok, and it will save as a wav. then just get a wav to mp3 converter or rip the cd as a 320 mp3 if you made the song in 320

[bennychico11]

Originally Posted by midwesttribune

go to file bounce to disk, set to stereo interleaved increase to how many bits as far as quality that you want, click ok, and it will save as a wav. then just get a wav to mp3 converter or rip the cd as a 320 mp3 if you made the song in 320

what you're suggesting is make the song into an mp3 and burn that to cd? why?

he shouldn't do that. Bounce to the format I told you above (stereo interleaved). Use a programs to burn it to CD. You're missing a step somewhere or you have software/hardware that's not functioning properly. After burning it, try and play the CD in your computer. Your external CD player in question (car, boombox...) may not be able to play burned CDs

[august]

see i bounce the disk, and it plays the song and all then wat? do i go to windows media and try to find the file there?