my CD sounds thin next to the mix of the aif file? Please help.

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Hi and thanks for the help-

My mix sounds great- then I bounce and the aif file sound great. Then I burn a CD in itunes or in toast and the cd sounds thin comparitivly. What's up? Do I have to compinsate for this in my mix?
Thanks for help,
Frank
 
your room probably sucks, and what you hear in the room that you mix in is a big old lie.
 
When you play the CD back on the same monitoring system, (the system you mixed it on) does the CD still sound different? Or is it only when you play it somewhere else?
 
Same everything

Guys, this isn't a room issue- Same room, same monitors, same interface.
The mix in logic sound great, then I bounce and the resulting aif file sounds exactly the same as the mix- great. Then I burn the CD and play it back through the exact same system and the cd seems to have lost the richness of the mix and the aif file. Thanks for the help,
Frank
 
Are you playing the CD on the computer or another CD player?

Did you dither it to 16 bit?

What happens when you extract a track back off the cd and play it back on the computer?

It seems like a lot of questions, but we have to narrow down where in the signal chain the change is happening.
 
Thanks,
I'm talking about playing it back on the same computer it was mixed on, through the same interface, same monitors. Nothing is changing. I record in 44.1, 16 bit so no dithering.
 
so I'm really disspointed with loosing the sound it in the last step

tourettes5139 said:
There ya go.
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Tell me more... What am I doing wrong, what should I be using?

I'm so happy with the sound I'm getting from my motu 896 and logic and so I'm really disspointed with loosing the sound it in the last step. Thanks,
Frank
 
tourettes5139 said:
There ya go.
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i use i tunes and toast all the time, they work fine for me.
in order for a burner program to do something like chop bass (a program which simply transfers ones and zeros to another medium) something has to be seriously wrong.
like, it accidentally grew a hi-pass filter.
if it's not a preference (possible, but not likely) then it's probably not a a by-product of the burning process.
 
Okay bounced and burned the mix in Logic. Listened to the file in quicktime- sounded perfect. Just like my mix- Then listen to it in Itunes and the bottom fell out. So it seem like it's a playback issue through Itunes. Any idea? Anybody? Thanks,
Frank
 
i may be off, but when you import the song into itunes it probably loses its quality because you need to change the importing options. instead of using the default import, which is an AAC file i think, you should use a .Wav or another type of file that is uncompressed.
 
yeah make sure your itunes eq is off or flat. I had a problem with media player sounding different than itunes and quickly discovered it was just the eq difference in the two.
 
Also, make sure that you are going lossless when converting to mp3 - it may be the mp3 settings that are killing you.
 
giraffe said:
i use i tunes and toast all the time, they work fine for me.
in order for a burner program to do something like chop bass (a program which simply transfers ones and zeros to another medium) something has to be seriously wrong.
like, it accidentally grew a hi-pass filter.
if it's not a preference (possible, but not likely) then it's probably not a a by-product of the burning process.
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Sorry, that's not what I meant. Itunes and/or toast should be fine. My comment was directed to Farview's question right above my post. My bad. :D
 
This should have nothing to do with the import setting because I'm not importing the song into Itunes, I'm simply playing back the burned CD through I tunes. There is no eq in the itunes get info window on the song, and the enhancer in itunes is off. What's up? Thanks for all the help.
 
Frankm666 said:
This should have nothing to do with the import setting because I'm not importing the song into Itunes, I'm simply playing back the burned CD through I tunes. There is no eq in the itunes get info window on the song, and the enhancer in itunes is off. What's up? Thanks for all the help.
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There's an eq on Itunes. I have mine set to flat. As far as I know the eq works even if you're just playing a song thru Itunes. Just like a car stereo. I can play a cd thru media player and then thru Itunes and they both sound different because of the different eq settings.
 
Okay-

I am so, so, sorry, and so stupid. I found there was an 'over all’ equalizer on the bottom of the logic window that I had severely tweaked a couple of weeks ago to help listen to some interview recording. Problem solved. So sorry to have wasted everybody's brain power on this one.

BTW What is waveburner?

Thanks,
Frank
 
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