CD burner noise???

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I,ve mixed a few songs and thei sound incredibly good on my computer. When i burn them to CD as wav files and listen on my stereo there's a quit anoying fyzzy high frequency sound playing along. Is that a souncard, cd-burner, ...????????????problem
 
Are the wav files 16/44.1? If you record in any other resolution than that, you need to downsample to get them to "CD level" quality.
 
"I,ve mixed a few songs and thei sound incredibly good on my computer."

When you listen to them on computer, what are you listening through? Monitors? Okay, but have you also listened to the same mix on a home stereo, a discman, a car stereo, etc? You have to learn to mix in a way that sounds good on *everything*. That's way more difficult that getting the mix to sound good on just one set of speakers.
 
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Oke, thanx for your replies must confess i've made a mistake on sample rate. As i checked i'd find a 32 sample rate. But then i'd burned a CD with another burner (the standard windows xp) and it sounded pretty good, also on my stereo.
I'm aware if the fact that my productions sound different on my PC-speakers, but that's the main reason for now to burn a cd and check the mix through my home stereo. Anyway they still sounded good.
Windows Cd burn program (media player) is probably able to adjust samplerate and other nesecary factors, or not???? Or is there some other vodoo factor involved??
 
When you burned a cd using a different burner, the program may have done the conversion for you. That's why it sounds better.

The way to do the conversion is to make a mix in Cool Edit Pro, mix it down to file, then in the edit view edit menu, there are two things: Adjust Sample rate and Convert Sample type. I believe 'Convert Sample Type' is the one which takes you from 32bit to 16 bit, 'Adjust Sample Rate' is what allows you to go from >44100 down to 44100 for CD burning.
 
For a mixdown to CD quality, you want 'Convert Sample Type'. Select 16-bit and 44.1 KHz. It should be the very last operation you make on your mix.
 
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What would i do without you wizzkids. So i,ve tried to convert samplerate from 32 to 44,1 but than the songs are speeded up and pitched up to some kind of weird donald duck metal type musak. For now, I think i stick to the CD burn program within the windows packkage. Or maybe some of you guy's knows how to convert without effecting the basic tempo and pitch??
 
"What would i do without you wizzkids. So i,ve tried to convert samplerate from 32 to 44,1 but than the songs are speeded up and pitched up to some kind of weird donald duck metal type musak. For now, I think i stick to the CD burn program within the windows packkage. Or maybe some of you guy's knows how to convert without effecting the basic tempo and pitch??"

You got some serious confusion going on there.

There are two things you need to pay attention to here: sample rate, and bit depth. An audio CD has a bit depth of 16 and a sample rate of 44,100 Hz.

Most Cool Edit/Audition users record at higher bitdepths and sample rates, cuz the sound's better. Most mix at those higher rates as well, cuz digital processing works better at higher resolutions. But after they (or you, or anybody) finally gets the mix the way they want it, they carry out that operation I showed you above. Nothing else. Then you can burn the session to a CD and it'll play in a CD player.
 
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