Bouncing to tracks anyone?

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Is "bouncing to tracks" supposed to help with dropouts? Is that why it's here? Am I wrong in thinking that it would help because, I haven't noticed a difference, but I don't know. Also, how do you control the volume of your tracks after you bounce them? Does anyone have this problem? After I bounce to tracks the resulting track clips all the time. What I have been doing is just turning the volume down 3 to 6 db on the tracks that I want to bounce. Does anyone have a better way of handling this?

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Vice
 
Bouncing "multiple" tracks to a single track should help with dropouts, since you are reducing your track count. You have to archive the original tracks, though, and not just mute them. If you simply mute them it will make it worse (because in that case you just added another track). Muted tracks take as much horsepower as regular tracks.

However, if you doing this and still getting dropouts, your problem must be elsewhere. Dropouts can be caused by a lot of different things - track count is just one.

You can also try Compacting your audio data - particularly if you have done a lot of dubbing and editing - and defragging your HD.
 
Also, make sure you don't have other programs running in the background.

You could do a simple check by pressing simulatneously ALT-CTRL-DELETE.

spin
 
Hey Spin, Fill me in on that "other programs running in the background" deal, that is really confusing to me. I know, of course, what you mean, but I dont know which programs I need and which to close. When I do control-alt-delete I have 25 things listed!. Dave
 
Aside from explorer and systray, sonar is the only thing I have running. I use disk keeper 6.0 once a day to defrag both my hard drives. I think am going to try the compact audio next. Is that the same as compressing? So far, I getting used to the bounce to track feature. I still am unsure about the volume levels. From what I can tell is the volume level is summed together, which causes the resulting track levels to be out of control. Is this the tradeoff?
 
All compacting audio data does is put it all in the same place so you don't have to use as much hard drive resources trying to access your tracks.

When you bounce to a track, the volume levels are summed just like they would be if you played the tracks back. Before you bounce, play the tracks you want to bounce and make sure the level never clips. This will most likely mean you have to bump the master volume back some. Any clipping in play back will translate to the bounced track which you definitely don't want. If you are just using it to save processing power while recording and just using the mixed down track for reference (scratch), it probably doesn't matter too much unless the distortion bothers you.
 
Okay, that sounds like what I was thinking. I appreciate the responses...

Vice
 
Thanks you vice, for answering DavidK's question. :)

spin
 
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