Qwerty
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Apologies to ChristopherM who has already got a dose of what I am going to bleat on about here.........
Anybody played the two large demo files that come with Sonar 3.0 PE? One hip-hop thing and another hard rock thing.... They both sound pretty well put together and the reverb use in the hip hop song sounds pretty good.
Take a straight dump of these tracks and burn 'em to CD and they sound crappy as all get out. Far below what I have been given from really basic studios as a quick mixdown at the end of a 12 hour lockout.
They both have a characteristic "telephoney" or "boxy" quality which sounds like an over-emphasis around 200-900Hz.
So - are these just poorly executed demo tracks?
I started going down this path when working on a recent song. In frustration, I dumped each individual track out and burnt them as seperate tracks to CD. I followed that with both of the demo tracks.
To my ears, every single one has that same telephonic, AM radio bias -- both source tracks, either close-miked, DI'ed or even samples and the dumped demo files.
So - are these just poorly executed demo tracks and how can all of the discrete sound sources I have been recording suffer from the exact same EQ discrepancy when there was no consistency in pre-amp or mic selection?
Now, who wants to be the first to call me a stupid bastard if I therefore suggest that the summing architecture still isn't all it could be?
Go on - it's good for your post count......
Q.
Anybody played the two large demo files that come with Sonar 3.0 PE? One hip-hop thing and another hard rock thing.... They both sound pretty well put together and the reverb use in the hip hop song sounds pretty good.
Take a straight dump of these tracks and burn 'em to CD and they sound crappy as all get out. Far below what I have been given from really basic studios as a quick mixdown at the end of a 12 hour lockout.
They both have a characteristic "telephoney" or "boxy" quality which sounds like an over-emphasis around 200-900Hz.
So - are these just poorly executed demo tracks?
I started going down this path when working on a recent song. In frustration, I dumped each individual track out and burnt them as seperate tracks to CD. I followed that with both of the demo tracks.
To my ears, every single one has that same telephonic, AM radio bias -- both source tracks, either close-miked, DI'ed or even samples and the dumped demo files.
So - are these just poorly executed demo tracks and how can all of the discrete sound sources I have been recording suffer from the exact same EQ discrepancy when there was no consistency in pre-amp or mic selection?
Now, who wants to be the first to call me a stupid bastard if I therefore suggest that the summing architecture still isn't all it could be?
Go on - it's good for your post count......
Q.