the final mixdown (.wav file) is thin

[Fury of Five]

For some reason, after mixing down to a final wave file, the wave is not as thick as the song sounded when playing back in CEP. It is a bit too thin, and I am wondering if this is normal for CEP to make your final .wav file to be thinner than what you are actually hearing when playing it in CEP.

 

[lkmuller]

Try "normalizing" the mixdown wavefile to 96% and see how that sounds. That's what I do when I export audio files out of cubase into cool edit and it works well for me.

 

[beetlefan]

I had that same question posted on Syntrillium's sister forum, www.audioforums.com

Are you recording and mixing down to 16-bit or staying in 32-bit?

I don't have an answer yet. I think it must have something to do with the dithering down to 16-bit. What I do is record in 32-bit, mix in 32-bit, and then dither with noise shaping to 16-bit.

 

[monty]

All right what's goin' on in here? Have you guys paid the RIAA anything for the priviledge of discussing music related topics? I didn't think so. Now get out and stay out until you send them a check.

 

[beetlefan]

If your mixdowns sound fine in CEP but sound thin on playback in a CD player, that tells me that either your playback system is thinning up the sound, or your monitoring set-up on your computer is making things sound too fat. One of these is not giving you accurate sound. Best to make your PC monitoring as accurate as possible.

 

[Fury of Five]

I always rec'd in 16 bit and mixed down to 16 bit, but I just tryed rec'ding in 32 bit, mixing down to 32 bit, then coverting that to 16 bit to be compliant with burning, but the .wav file produced is still thinner sounding than what is played back in CEP.