korg d1600 problems

[insanescott]

I have recently purchased the Korg D1600 and Alesis M1 monitors with the Audix D series mics and the AKG D112 kick mic and AKG C1000S as overheads. I have recorded my band (in 16 bit mode) and when I mix on the monitors it sounds great nice and full and full of tone. Heres my problem: When I burn the song onto a cd through the internal cd burner it comes out horribly bassy lacking tone and has a cheap sound to it as well. I was wondering if there was any way to fix this because I am very desperate and don't have too many recording friends that can help me out. If you can give me any sort of assistance I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks a bunch!

 

[Stealthtech]

When you playback the freshly burnt CD, do you preview it on your monitors or another source ?
What kind of CDRW are you using ? and program to transfer & write.

 

[insanescott]

I listen to it in the monitors and in about 3 more cd players i have. I'm just using the program through the Korg operating system (2.0) and its the Korg burner. I'm just using everything thats built into the machine nothing external.

 

[5c0tt]

Do you run the playback CD through the Korg when you are listening back to it?
If so, make sure the channels you are running the CD through don't have any EQ or effects on them as this will alter the sound.

Sorry if you know this already but it's the only thing I can think of at the moment.

Good luck.

S

 

[insanescott]

yeah i made sure i did that in the mixdown and whenever i listened to it. but thanks anyway. hopefully someone will have the magic solution to help me.

 

[JesusFreak]

Howdy,

I also use the Korg D1600. Love the thing. Anyway, I would think that you could have a couple of problems. Maybe your monitors don't have a very good bass representation so you are forced to boost the bass over what you should have to normally.

I also noticed a huge difference when I started recording in 24 bit vs 16 bit. It really does make a world of difference.

Also, before you burned your CD, did you bounce all the tracks down to two?? I don't know if this could cause the problem that you are having but it is at least one more thing to check.

I use JBL LSR25p monitors and they have a great bass response so I don't have this problem at all. I get a great sound out of my monitors and it sounds even better on my home system.

Have you tried different media?? Maybe use a CD-R instead of CD-RW. Try to find a high quality disk to use and see what the difference if any it makes.

I also monitor kind of wierd. I will monitor through my Near fields and then listen again through headphones. It helps me because I'm hearing it through two different sets of medium before I do any type of burning.

Also, do you have any master or final effects going to song during the burning process?? Maybe they are causing problems too.

Anyway, just some ideas.

God Bless!

 

[insanescott]

hey, thanks for the ideas. ive actually been told that the monitors im using now arent bad for the buck, eventually i would love move up to better monitors. unfortunetly, i cannot move up to 24 bit because i desperately need those 16 tracks. I also bounced down the 12 tracks or so of recorded material to tracks 15 and 16 then i moved them to 1 and 2 and burned like that. i will have to try out the cd-rw's because all i have used so far are the cd-r's. i also made sure i set the eq's on tracks 1 and 2 were set flat and also made sure i removed the effects i had on tracks one and two. after i get a pretty good sound on the monitors i check the headphones to make sure the mix is good. but i will definetly have to try some cd-rw's. thanks so much!

 

[volltreffer]

I dont really know, but the problems with some guys I heard from (with VS workstations) was that they had bounced to two tracks, but had their track eq activated while listening. Of yourse this would not be burned...

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