Muffled Recording But Clear Monitoring

[Paperweight]

Hi these look like great forums, we're pretty much noobs here (the band and I) but we've been recording for a while now, over a year.

Everything's been fine up til about a week ago when, ever since I recorded my Beatles vinyl onto CD, all our new recorded tracks sound very very muffled when played back. The Thing is, they sound crystal clear when being monitored!

We're using Adobe Audition 1.5, and a Sound Blaster Audigy 2 with ASIO.
I think I messed with some buffer settings a while back because there was a long lag between pressing play and a moving cue and playback from the multitrack window. I have since changed them back. I changed all the windows 2000 sound level sliders as well between all possible configurations, so I just moved them all back to midway.
I have 4 second buffers setup, and "Multitrack Latency" has been set to 8 ms.
Pentium 4, 256mb ram, good hd space.

It sounds very very lossey when played back, but perfect when monitored.
Help!

- Dylan & The Streaks

 

[artCROSS]

Amazing, I was just about to post something extremely similar.

My band is a rock band, and I've been starting to do all our recordings. I monitor through a pair of KRK RP5s, and the recordings sound professional through them. But when i listen through headphones, or car stereos, it doesn't sound nearly as professional. Very muffled. Is this a problem of the preamps I use (The pre's on my Behringer Eurorack for drums and Pres on my Edirol FA101 interface for overdubs [vox, guitars, everything else]) or my mics (mxlv67g, sp b1, sm57), or both? Or is it b/c my track aren't mastered? Thanks.

 

[NYMorningstar]

Everything's been fine up til about a week ago when, ever since I recorded my Beatles vinyl onto CD, all our new recorded tracks sound very very muffled when played back. The Thing is, they sound crystal clear when being monitored!

We're using Adobe Audition 1.5, and a Sound Blaster Audigy 2 with ASIO.
I think I messed with some buffer settings a while back because there was a long lag between pressing play and a moving cue and playback from the multitrack window. I have since changed them back. I changed all the windows 2000 sound level sliders as well between all possible configurations, so I just moved them all back to midway.
I have 4 second buffers setup, and "Multitrack Latency" has been set to 8 ms.
Pentium 4, 256mb ram, good hd space.

It sounds very very lossey when played back, but perfect when monitored.
Help!

- Dylan & The Streaks

The buffer and latency setting have nothing to do with a muffled sound. You would change them to deal with clicks in your mix and problems with delay.

My guess is when you changed things to record the vinyl you probably changed some eq and mixer settings in Adobe Audition 1.5 or on the soundcard.

 

[NYMorningstar]

Amazing, I was just about to post something extremely similar.

My band is a rock band, and I've been starting to do all our recordings. I monitor through a pair of KRK RP5s, and the recordings sound professional through them. But when i listen through headphones, or car stereos, it doesn't sound nearly as professional. Very muffled. Is this a problem of the preamps I use (The pre's on my Behringer Eurorack for drums and Pres on my Edirol FA101 interface for overdubs [vox, guitars, everything else]) or my mics (mxlv67g, sp b1, sm57), or both? Or is it b/c my track aren't mastered? Thanks.

Take a good commercial cd and setup your KRK RP5s in your room. Your problem most likely is because your music isn't mastered.

 

[Paperweight]

Is there an easy way to reset all settings in Adobe Audition?

 

[Farview]

Are you listening back through an RIAA filter?

 

[Paperweight]

It wasn't a mastering problem (it wasn't exported). I reinstalled AA and the problem went away...along with some others .