Sound Quality of Bounced Tracks

[Earlds]

Bouncing tracks

I know that every one on this board knows more about digital recording than I do ,but I will still give my two cents just because I want to be included...I strongly suspect that the degradation of sound is happening in the PC software not in the MR8.Otherwize Fostex has a real big proplem...If I had an mr8 I would record and bounce a few times within the machine and see ...I hope my wife will let me buy the VF80 in a couple of months..Than I will be more worthy ..Don...

 

[digitcallous]

I have not noticed degradation bouncing tracks on the MR-8 when no effects are used. If there is degradation it is so minimal that my ears can't hear it. I have also bounced tracks while applying reverb effect. Other than the added reverb I did not notice any degradation either.

I have experienced a problem bouncing tracks (mixing down to 7/8) when I used the mixing effects. I mixed down one song using one of the mixdown effects (I think it was POWERFUL) and when I listened to the result I noticed that the volume varied at different points of the song. When I remixed it with no mixing effects the problem went away. I have not used the mixing effects since so I don't know whether that is a persistent problem.

DC

 

[clifchamb]

I mixed down one song using one of the mixdown effects (I think it was POWERFUL) and when I listened to the result I noticed that the volume varied at different points of the song.

DC

The "powerful" mastering effect is a HUGE amount of compression and with no way to adjust the settings this could happen to some of your recordings.

clif

 

[Eric-Jensen]

Isn't the sound quality of bounces lower because it's all being done in 16 bits in the MR8? The information from 2 or more 16-bit tracks, together with 16-bit reverb, mastering eq, etc. is being merged into one 16 bit track, and that has to have an information cost that we can hear. N-tracks says that it does everything internal in 32 bits. You can then master to lower precision for (16 bit) CD masters, etc., if you want that, but as much information as possible is preserved until mastering. Most of the slightly bigger setups than the MR8 (Boss 10 track, Tascam 788) can use 24 bit recording and processing, which must help, and some of the really serious computer surfaces can go to like 192 kHz sampling and 32 bits, if you have the computer to support it. One more reason to use the MR8 as a portable sound card, and edit on n-tracks!