Distorted Sound(MR-8)

[Moe]

Hello Everyone,

I recently got a MR8, I recorded a few songs(all sounded good when I was recording..), then I bounced all to the tracks 7/8, while I was listening the songs with my headphones the mix sounded ok no clips no distorted sounds, so I decided to download my songs...so I did, but while I was listening the cd that I´d burned all the songs were distorted at some point, not during the hole song only in some parts, my question is why I couldnt realize before while I was checking them with my headphones or my speakers??
Did I miss something? Did I do something wrong during the mix?
I hope you can help me with this freaking situation....

Thanks Guys

 

[pjh6467]

distortion

Did you listen to your wav before burning to cd? Through media player or some other player in your os? When you say downloaded, do you mean you created a stereo wav file on 7/8 and usb to your pc? Or did you take 7/8, hit play, and record through your sound card into some recording software? If you have a pc you should bag the internal bouncing process and buy some multitrack recording software. I have Power tracks by Pro Audio and cost me less than $30.00. New version has a 4 part Harmonizer. Ntracks is around $50.00 and gets lots of praise in here. Fostex has a free program called wav manager, you can download that will let you import tracks individually into your software where you can have control over each track. And you won't believe the quality you can get. As far as your distortion problem. Until we know what medium you used to create your wav, I'm not sure what could be causing it. Read past threads on importing and exporting wav files. There's lots of info in here.

 

[Moe]

I did this...

Hey,

First I used tracks 1/2/3/4 to record my song,then I bounced all on tracks 7/8 and finally I created a wav file and downloaded(usb) to my pc.

I´ll check on the other threads anyways...

Thx again....

 

[jbstratman55]

What mastering option did you use, ie; (Powerful, Natural or Bright)? It changes the input level on the mix, something I learned the hard way when I first started with the MR-8. Probably not much help, but it's about the only thing I could think of. I've done the mixdown, bounce and USB transfer with no problems since the first time or so. Hope you get things going okay.

 

[dave in toledo]

clipping

sounds like the file is clipping in spots,, to hot of a signal on sertains parts...really have to make shure there is NEVER any clipping, red light is very bad , digital distortion really sounds bad... check your gain structure....

 

[Reggaesoldier]

What mastering option did you use, ie; (Powerful, Natural or Bright)? It changes the input level on the mix, something I learned the hard way when I first started with the MR-8.

good point, but I would recommend not using any of the mastering effects, as well as the other reverb/delay effects. They ALL blow! but like stratman said, take a look a make sure none of those were on.

 

[dave in toledo]

signal

if you have hot spots in your signal and use the "mastering effects hahah" it will definatly clip the signal....

he is right the effects and mastering suck, transfer the files to pc and edit them there, WORLD of difference in your recordings....

you can even use a compressor and seperate limiter to fix the tracks you have....if there not too bad, you can visually see the clipped files by flattened out peaks when zoomed into the wav file....

 

[junplugged]

hey pjh, ya got a link for that software? $30 is a nice price, do they have a demo?

when I used the 'mastering' effects i had to push the master fader down about 1/2 way. I don't really use it anymore. I used to use 'bright' only b/c my vocal wasn't bright enough, but i just got better mics and made some other decisions.... What really sucks is that there's NO documentation for those darn effects and no adjustments, etc. I'd rather have cleaner reverb and some more control of that, or maybe well, you know.............wish wish wish.....