Burning Issues

[ecktronic]

I have 2 tracks that i have mastered and levelled so that the tracks are pretty close to standard volume of commercial CDs. There is no peaking whatsoever and i also have played the tracks up very very loud through headphones to hear if the sound deteriorates at certain volumes but they dont.
So why when i burn the tracks to CD and then listen back the tracks have crackles in them and sound distorted a bit?
I have burned CDs before without crackle!

 

[mshilarious]

i also have played the tracks up very very loud through headphones

Don't do that. If your monitors aren't good enough to hear distortion, buy better monitors. They are a lot cheaper than a new pair of ears.

As for your pop & cracks, what CD burner/software are you using? Does it have an error test function? What are you playing back the CDs on? Does it happen on different players?

 

[ecktronic]

I am using wavelab to burn my CDs. I did a bit of a test not long ago to see what was the matter with my CDs. I used a different burning program (easy CD creator) and it was the same. So the problem isnt the burning software.
I then listened to the CD on a stereo and didnt get any crackle!
I then imported the CD into wavelab and listened back to it. It had no crackles!!
I then listened to the CD using Real player rather than Windows media player and i didnt get crackles this time!
So i thought it must be Windows media player that is making the crackles.
Lastly i listened to the CD on my digital recorder and i heard a little bit of crackle at the start.
So what i have found from all this is that i dont know what is wrong!! great.

 

[mshilarious]

I am using wavelab to burn my CDs. I did a bit of a test not long ago to see what was the matter with my CDs. I used a different burning program (easy CD creator) and it was the same. So the problem isnt the burning software.
I then listened to the CD on a stereo and didnt get any crackle!
I then imported the CD into wavelab and listened back to it. It had no crackles!!
I then listened to the CD using Real player rather than Windows media player and i didnt get crackles this time!
So i thought it must be Windows media player that is making the crackles.
Lastly i listened to the CD on my digital recorder and i heard a little bit of crackle at the start.
So what i have found from all this is that i dont know what is wrong!! great.

I'm gonna guess it's the internal CD cable in your box, or your CD drive has really crappy converters. I bet Real is taking the tracks digitally off the CD, whereas WMP is just playing the audio.

Not sure about the digital recorder though.

What brand CD-R is this?

 

[ecktronic]

I have the BR1180 boss digital recorder with built in CDR and i am using a fujitsu computer CDR and also i have a DVD rom that plays CDs.
I tried commercial CDs on different sources and they dont crackle.
I am thinking that the crackles must be on the CD, but for some reason some players dont show the crackles where as others do. It must be the burning of the CD is faulty in my PC only for non comercial music!! It just baffles me how i am sure the recording is crackle free from testing out big volumes in studio on monitors and headphones.
Must be alot about digital i dont really know.