Buzzing sound in recordings from Cd Burner... please help

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Let me try to explain the problem...

I recently did several recordings for some friends of mine so that they could enter into a Battle of the Bands. When I burned the song to CD, there was a high-pitched buzzing sound coming from about 0:20 - 1:09 of the song. Plus, the whole song seemed lesser quality than when I had listened to it before burning (more static, less low-end, etc). So, I burned at a slower speed, thinking that would help, but had the same problem. So, I burned another CD, but this time, instead of burning it as an audio CD (using Nero, I might add), I burned the songs as a data onto a data CD. Then, I listened to them off the data CD in my computer, and they sounded great. So, somehow, when I burn an audio CD, I'm losing a lot of quality somehow. Can anyone explain why this is happening? I know it's just my burner, because I took the data CD to a friend's house and had him burn an audio CD, and the songs sounded fine.

Here's the song:



Thanks!
 
Yeah seriously anyone?

There are around 10 post with this exact issue in the archives. They all involve Nero burning software and wav. files being burned with substantial distortion. AND NONE OF THE POST HAVE ANY ANSWERS! :confused:

I know one of you guys has the solution for this out there.

Wav. files sound great on playback prior to burn.
Levels are low enough that the problem is not in the cd player playback.
The problem is absolutely occuring in the burning process. Any ideas?
Burning mixed down wav. 16 bit/44.1khz
Data cd of the tracks is beautiful.
 
For a decent answer, we'd have to know literally every inch of the chain from the point where the audio last sounded "good."

Program, file type, word length, sample rate, burner type, media (it's not usually the media, but hey, why not?).

Are these being dithered by Nero? Are they being dithered at all? Is the sample rate being changed? Why do people use Nero?
 
Massive Master, thanks for responding. I am about to start pulling my hair out on this.

This phenomenon is only occuring on tracks that were mixed down from Cakewalk which sends it out as a 48khz/16 bit wav. file. So I slap that into Goldwave do some work on it including changing the sample rate to 44.1khz/16 bit. It still sounds clean as a whistle up to this point. So I take it to Nero and that is where the problems start to occur. The same result happens for both the 44.1khz and 48khz wav.s

I burned a cd using a Musicmatch demo program and that worked out fine, only problem is that I can only burn 4 more discs with that. So what would you recommend? It isn't the burner and it isn't the music, it is Nero. Should I just chuck it? A friend recommended downloading Itunes to get their free burning software. This wouldn't be any big problem to do it is just that I can't for the life of me figure out why Nero is only screwing up the cakewalk generated wav.s and I am the kind of person that this is going to drive crazy.

Is it the dithering is it some weird normalization thing what could possibly be causing this?
 
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