encoding to rm lo-fi problems

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This is my first post so please be gentle !
OK I have recorded my bands song and mixed it down to a wave and encoded it to 128 bit MP3 CD standard, it sounds sweet and importantly I can hear their wonderful rap voices. Now what I want to do is show the world what a great band they are so off I trott with my MP3 to vitaminic and upload my track. Trouble is when you play it back as 24 bit Real media audio stream it sounds crap and worst of all the raps are vitually not there at all just a little distorted whisper of them just now and again.
I first noticed I had a problem when I burned the original wav file to CD and it played great on my stereo system but on other systems you could not hear the Rap voices ??

Am I missing something here ?

It all raises the question is it in my mix ? and anyway how do you control what can be heard when streaming in lo-fi as other artists seem to get reasonable results with lo-fi streaming audio.

cheers

0Hz
 
Lo fi sucks, plain and simple. You could have mix issues also but without hearing the file it's impossible to say. Do you have a link?
 
Thanx for the reply.
OK I think the problem was in my mixdown as I have redone it and at least now I can hear the voices. However The RM file still sounds rubbish. I am using helix producer to convert the wav file to RM at 32Kbits(for 56K modem users which is what vitaminic use)
. The problem is the the voices sound so full of base yet the top end of the backing track sound bright, there must be a way to optimise the mix so that the voices will be more balanced. Like I said other RM files on vitaminic seem to sound OK as far as base in concerned.
If anyone wants to listen to the MP3 mix then I will post it on the web.
Or if anyone can offer any pointers on mixing down and getting a balanced mix as far as base,mid and top end freqs are concerned then I need this help. BTW I am currently using Cool Edit Pro 2.
I have been using a book Audo Editing with cool edit by Richard Riley.

Cheers

0Hz
 
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