czar of bizarre
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how is everyone doing? i have something i need to explain and i need advice because this situation is costing me A LOT of cash and it seems like everytime i see a light at the end of the tunnel something pops up.
i took my 16 bit wav files into a studio and loaded them into pro tools. against the SOUND advice from a person on this board i mixed at the studio. $2500 down the drain (the engineer would NEVER listen to what i told him to do).
so i ask them to back up all my files so i can take the audio and split.
i purchased blank cds (a 25 pack) and went into the studio. i was told it would take 2 hours. it ended up taking 6.
here is where things get really weird. when i FIRST took the files in each song was on its own cd (a disc full of multitracked files). so all of the tracks in song #1 had the same start and ending time (to make sure they all lined up). same with song 2 3 4 5 etc etc etc etc.
i had stereo and mono files to import but now i have NO stereo files on my new cds. heres an example
original e piano: 30.2 mb 3 minutes 23 seconds. stereo wav 16 bit 44.1k
now after he backs it up and i put the disc in my pc i see that epiano is now broken into E PIANO L and E PAINO R.
e piano l is now: 40 mb 3 minutes 23 seconds. mono wav 24 bit 44.1 k
e piano r is now: 40 mb 3 minutes 23 seconds. mono wav 24 bit 44.1 k
so if one stereo wav went in why am i getting larger mono files? i can understand that the files are now 24 bit but why did he break up the stereo file into two seperate files?
why am i not getting a STEREO file that is larger because of the 16 to 24 bit conversion?
by doing that several songs took up 4 or 5 discs.
is this an issue in pro tools or did he mess up? i told the guy from the start to make sure that each track in each song had the same start and stop and that each mono track be RENDERED as mono and stereo as stereo.
c.o.b
ps i hope i was clear on what i was trying to explain. basically my files are now broken up and larger than what they were.
i took my 16 bit wav files into a studio and loaded them into pro tools. against the SOUND advice from a person on this board i mixed at the studio. $2500 down the drain (the engineer would NEVER listen to what i told him to do).
so i ask them to back up all my files so i can take the audio and split.
i purchased blank cds (a 25 pack) and went into the studio. i was told it would take 2 hours. it ended up taking 6.
here is where things get really weird. when i FIRST took the files in each song was on its own cd (a disc full of multitracked files). so all of the tracks in song #1 had the same start and ending time (to make sure they all lined up). same with song 2 3 4 5 etc etc etc etc.
i had stereo and mono files to import but now i have NO stereo files on my new cds. heres an example
original e piano: 30.2 mb 3 minutes 23 seconds. stereo wav 16 bit 44.1k
now after he backs it up and i put the disc in my pc i see that epiano is now broken into E PIANO L and E PAINO R.
e piano l is now: 40 mb 3 minutes 23 seconds. mono wav 24 bit 44.1 k
e piano r is now: 40 mb 3 minutes 23 seconds. mono wav 24 bit 44.1 k
so if one stereo wav went in why am i getting larger mono files? i can understand that the files are now 24 bit but why did he break up the stereo file into two seperate files?
why am i not getting a STEREO file that is larger because of the 16 to 24 bit conversion?
by doing that several songs took up 4 or 5 discs.
is this an issue in pro tools or did he mess up? i told the guy from the start to make sure that each track in each song had the same start and stop and that each mono track be RENDERED as mono and stereo as stereo.
c.o.b
ps i hope i was clear on what i was trying to explain. basically my files are now broken up and larger than what they were.