Monitoring/Burning Problems

[BeforeTheJury]

I am losing volume in the burning process on my Fostex MR8. The playback before burning sounds great in Numark monitors and Sony headphones. But the finished CD has a very low volume when playing on a home/car stereo.

I have tried using the lame mastering effects on the MR8 and get the opposite problem with lots of cliping. There seems to be no happy medium. Is there anything I am overlooking or is that the best I can expect from my low end recorder?

 

[ido1957]

That's the best you can expect....

 

[witzendoz]

Why don't you export the stereo mix unmastered to your computer then do the mastering in the computer to bring up the volume?

Alan.

 

[mjbphotos]

Why don't you export the stereo mix unmastered to your computer then do the mastering in the computer to bring up the volume?

Alan.

***+1***

The Fostex uses a 'summing' algorithm (my Boss BR600 does as well) so that when you are mixing the accumulated track volumes don't clip. I'm guessing all stand-alone digital recorders do this.
Export your mix to a computer and master on that (or better yet, have someone else do the mastering).