Emagic mastering

[John128]

Hi All

I have search and search for an answer on this....please excuse me if the answer is so obvious!

I am using Emagic Soundtrack 24, which I understand to be Logic Silver.

I have bounced the recorded audio tracks to a stereo mixdown by clicking the bounce button on the master out fader. But when I listen, it sounds nothing like my mix before mixdown. Almost sounds mono!

Am I missing a point here? shouldn't digital have ne degredation when bouncing?

Please help.

John

[vox]

what are you listening to the mixed track on? CD? reimported into Logic? in the Logic wave editor?

Make sure the little icon below the master fader meters is a double 'o' (oo) and that the master fader meter is actually two meters next to each other. Make sure that it's imported to a stereo track too.

[bizarre]

there will always be a loss when you alter a file, be it adding verb, bouncin' - anything. It's not true that digital altering is lossless. I'm using Nuendo - and I use a lot of effects, causing me to bounce tracks every once in a while, I can hear the loss every time. But it shouldn't make it sound " allmost mono" because of one bounce - can't help you with that one
bizz

[John128]

Actually, I think my question is even more fundermental....

I have my mix in Logic that sounds great...levels, eq and effects, all as I want them when playing the mix from Logic (all audio tracks). What I'm struggling to understand is , how do I get the 8 Audio tracks down to one stereo WAV or MP3 while sounding like my mix as it is in Logic.

Please excuse my ignorance, but I have spent hours trying to understand this part of the process to no avail.

Thanks again
John

[nessbass]

To mix your audio tracks down to one stereo file, you have to use the bounce-button right below the Master fader. And I guess you did just fine until now. The important thing now is, that you have to listen to it in stereo. It's not that banal as it sounds. I guess you have reimported the stereo file into Logic, right? Now switch the track, that the file is on into stereo mode (the first four tracks should be in stereo by default, the others are monotracks!) by clicking on the little circle on the bottom part of the track. It should turn into a stereo-sign and the file should sound just like you have it in your memory. The same thing is true, if you don't really reimport the file, but want to listen to it from the Audio window. There you will have to select a channel number, that belongs to a stereo track. If this still doesn't work, I can't help you.

David.

[John128]

Thanks Guys

I was imprting into a mono track...no wonder it sounded like mono!

Another Q. What do most people use to convert to MP3?

Thanks
John

[John128]

Thanks Guys

I was imprting into a mono track...no wonder it sounded like mono!

Another Q. What do most people use to convert to MP3?

Thanks
John

[nessbass]

I'm using AudioCatalyst. It's a grabber/encoder package, it's not very good, but it does its job.

David.

[Vance Dylan]

I've been using Audio Active Production Studio. Great Quality, Fast and no artifacts.