jeffmaher
New member
A lot of the criticism I get in my recordings is that they sound "dull".
I was just recording a thumb-slap bass part...through the monitors, feeding undigitized analog signal, it sounded really nice. I did a 10 second digital recording of the sound, and played it back...UGH!!
It sounds 'dull'. The sparkle is major gone...and I reckon all my tracks are similarly whacked when played back....except not to the degree apparent on the bass. I never noticed how bad the boxiness happened before. Or mebbe my ears are getting better.
I'm using Sonar 3.3, recording at 24/48. The signal is going through the same chain live as played back, except that the information is digitized in a computer file, and transferred back to analog by the Echo II soundcard.
I'm desperate to know where the awfullness is happening. Likely the soundcard? The platform's routine for storing the data?? My understanding is that Sonar was always lauded for it's organic-sounding and truthful 'read' for storage of digital information: which leaves me thinking that the soundcard is crap..or not working as it should. Or could the problem be elsewhere?
I'm faced with the possibility of spending a wad on a better soundcard, and not improving the playback quality...taking things to the next level.
Anyone fix a similar thing? TIA.
I was just recording a thumb-slap bass part...through the monitors, feeding undigitized analog signal, it sounded really nice. I did a 10 second digital recording of the sound, and played it back...UGH!!
It sounds 'dull'. The sparkle is major gone...and I reckon all my tracks are similarly whacked when played back....except not to the degree apparent on the bass. I never noticed how bad the boxiness happened before. Or mebbe my ears are getting better.
I'm using Sonar 3.3, recording at 24/48. The signal is going through the same chain live as played back, except that the information is digitized in a computer file, and transferred back to analog by the Echo II soundcard.
I'm desperate to know where the awfullness is happening. Likely the soundcard? The platform's routine for storing the data?? My understanding is that Sonar was always lauded for it's organic-sounding and truthful 'read' for storage of digital information: which leaves me thinking that the soundcard is crap..or not working as it should. Or could the problem be elsewhere?
I'm faced with the possibility of spending a wad on a better soundcard, and not improving the playback quality...taking things to the next level.
Anyone fix a similar thing? TIA.