yourbestfriend
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I hope someone can help me out with this. I recently did a mixdown of a track from my Tascam 488 to my Tascam DA-30 MKII. I used the preset calibration on the DA-30 MKII and ran through the song a few times before I got the perfect monitor and headphone mix. Everything was super breezy and it sounded great on the final mixdown, so I figured I would try to transfer to my computer to post some MP3s online.
Now, I don't have a very high end interface or digital recording program (I'm using a Behringer UCA202 and Audacity because CHEAP) but I didn't figure I would have this problem. The frequencies are being automatically compressed/limited. Whole frequency range and nuance is just...gone. It's nothing to do with the DAT deck, because the signal sounds fine when I'm actively monitoring FROM THE INTERFACE, but it's obvious that the waveform is being compressed. I can't tell if it's the interface doing it (since the signal sounds fine during monitoring on the UCA202) or if Audacity is just too lame to take the full girth of this track.
Is it my soundcard? What is it? I hope someone out there has an answer for me.
Now, I don't have a very high end interface or digital recording program (I'm using a Behringer UCA202 and Audacity because CHEAP) but I didn't figure I would have this problem. The frequencies are being automatically compressed/limited. Whole frequency range and nuance is just...gone. It's nothing to do with the DAT deck, because the signal sounds fine when I'm actively monitoring FROM THE INTERFACE, but it's obvious that the waveform is being compressed. I can't tell if it's the interface doing it (since the signal sounds fine during monitoring on the UCA202) or if Audacity is just too lame to take the full girth of this track.
Is it my soundcard? What is it? I hope someone out there has an answer for me.