distortion when burning wav to cd

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dick west

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Hi,
First time making a cd here. It works, but... peak volumes are all fuzzy.
I created 18 songs using Roland XV88, vocals, and guitars, audio and midi, in cakewalk home studio 2002. Through the process, I made them all audio tracks. None of the track meters are going in the "red". At that point I "exported to wav" to my desktop album folder. When played withing cakewalk, there is no distortion at all. When playing the .wav files on the pc there is no distortion at all. It occurs only once it's sent to the CD.
I'm using XP home, NeroExpress for burning.
I've tried slower burn speeds, turned down the windows mixer, and these seem to have nothing to do with it. Same results. I'm using Memorex cdr's.
Is there something I can monitor the burn process to see the peaks or is that just an automated process we can't control? Thanks for your help.
rick west
 
Have you tried adjusting the settings before you burn (right click each track in the cd pane then Properties) ?

There could be something in there stuffing it up
 
hmmm.. not sure what you mean there..

in nero, there is no tracks to view.
just the song names.
i don't burn from cakewalk so i don't think you mean that. when in cakewalk format, all my peak volumes are fine.
but, what you are saying is what i'm looking for.. a monitor to see what's going on during the burning.
thanks for your help
rick
 
Nero should have a little preview feature which allows you to select a .wav file in the "To-Be-Burned" window and play it back. Are your files 44.1kHz/16-bit? If not, Nero might be doing a SRC (Sample-Rate-Conversion) on the fly which could mess things up. I use Nero 5 for all my burning (screw that EZCDCreator Cr*p that Dell installs!) and I've never had problems burning my stuff (although I track and mix with N-Track)
Good luck!
 
Hey Dick, if you ever managed to figure out your problem please post it. I am having the exact same issues with xp, cakewalk, nero.... the whole bit. I appreciate any hints you can give me.
 
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