VF 160 CD burner

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Whats with the VF 160's CD burner ? it's like the bass is taking over kind like it's bad tape saturation, is anyone else having this problem. It's brand new and I'm thinking about trading it in on a different machine the sound quality just does not seam to be there
 
Surely the CDRW can only burn what's on the hard drive, it can't add bass...

I've had no problems with mine.
 
No problem here!

If anything I always think the CD audio from the burner sounds 'better' than what I hear from the vf160 at mixdown. But I'm sure that's my imagination!

Anyway, in this case it may be as somone hinted at that you are mixing with one set of speakers, burning the CD based on what you hear on those, then taking the CD and listening to it on an other system and finding too much bass on it.

That is not a fault with the burner but a 'fault' with the system you are listening on when you do your mixing. You may either have to invest in a monitoring system that gives a truer picture of what's going on, or keep practicing by removing bass on your mixes and then listening to the CD on the other system unitl it sounds good to your ears, then remeber the mix settings you used and repeat in future.

With digital either the CD works or it doesn't, it can't really come out 'bassy' unless you mix it that way, but your monitoring system may not be giving you a true sound picture.
 
bass

had the same problem , until i got used to it i mixed down a quick version of a song to analog cassette, and would run around to different machines in the house and garage listening and then going back in and adding or subtracting as needed, the id mix to my cd.
 
Like Dave52 said,it has nothing to do with the burner.It has to do with the way in which you are mixing,and WHAT you are mixing on.If your monitors dont have a good bass response,you will always end up mixing "bass heavy"......it'll sound good on THOSE speakers but will end up being bass heavy on everything else you play it on....if you are using headphones to mix then you need to STOP doing that.LOL
 
Kramer said:
if you are using headphones to mix then you need to STOP doing that.LOL
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Not to be disagreeable, but I often mix on a pair of Sennheiser 280's that can get down below 20hz -- well below what most speakers will audibly put out. So, I find I don't have trouble with bass heavy mixes. Although, while I use headphones, I also do test mixes on great stereo speakers (that have a sub-woofer in the signal path), plus a car stereo and a boom-box...
 
Headphones AND speakers is the way.

What I do is mix using speakers. I use three sets, a good set of hifi (good bass), a poor set of hifi (less bass) and a crappy pair of old PC speakers (little bass little tebble!). When the mix sounds OK (balanced) on all three then I know I'm getting somewhere.

Whilst I'm doing this I also slip on the headphones because they are great for sorting out the separation of instruments in the stereo field, when you pan something say to the left you can really here it moving over better on headphones than on speakers (at least the way my room is set up). But I wouldn't use headphones for judging EQ, you don't get a true picture IMHO. Even with the most expensive headphones in the world you still need to use speakers at least some of the time if not most of the time.

But the bottom line is whatever works for you - you need to develop your own modus operendi for the equipment and facilities you have which produces a good result and that will take a fair amaount of experimentation no matter how good your equipment..
 
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