crimsonhawk47
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I have never had this problem before. I am using my sennheisers to make this track, and I bounce it out of Pro Tools.
I played it back in windows media player with the same headphones and what I heard was odd. This isn't the first time I've bounced audio and I have not heard this. The bass was boosted to ridiculous, boomy levels. It was muddy, and it just sounded plain bad.
So I thought there could be a number of things I could do
1)I need to see how wav stacks up with the mp3 I originally bounced
2) I need to bounce to disk instead of the whole recording into audio track thing and exporting as a file (even though I know a lot of great sounding tracks are bounced this way, and I also hear this has it's own automatic dither
3) I need to see if Pro Tools normalizes bouncing.
4) I need to dither when I bounce out the file
5) I need to try different playback programs.
6) While it wasn't clipping, it was higher in the levels than usual. Maybe I should put a limiter on just to make sure it's not clipping in any way.
7) I should see if the exported file sounds just as bad once it's reimported into Pro Tools.
1) The wav sounded just as bad as the original. Still boomy, still absurd.
2) So I tried the original bounce to disk (admittedly, I did Pro Tools 11's new offline bounce, but surely this isn't a problem?) This one I just tried as an mp3. Still terrible quality.
3) From what I have looked up, I don't see a hidden setting that's normalizing my audio. Maybe my playback software is normalizing it and I just need a more balanced mix?
4) I tried the regular Pro Tools Dither. No luck there.
5) I tried windows media player, quick time, then downloaded spotify and imported the playlist from windows media. No luck.
6) Limiter on (while it did close the gap between bass boominess and volume of other instruments) did not help that much.
7) With the file reimported into pro tools, it sounded nice and clean again, so it doesn't seem like it's the export itself.
Any ideas?
I played it back in windows media player with the same headphones and what I heard was odd. This isn't the first time I've bounced audio and I have not heard this. The bass was boosted to ridiculous, boomy levels. It was muddy, and it just sounded plain bad.
So I thought there could be a number of things I could do
1)I need to see how wav stacks up with the mp3 I originally bounced
2) I need to bounce to disk instead of the whole recording into audio track thing and exporting as a file (even though I know a lot of great sounding tracks are bounced this way, and I also hear this has it's own automatic dither
3) I need to see if Pro Tools normalizes bouncing.
4) I need to dither when I bounce out the file
5) I need to try different playback programs.
6) While it wasn't clipping, it was higher in the levels than usual. Maybe I should put a limiter on just to make sure it's not clipping in any way.
7) I should see if the exported file sounds just as bad once it's reimported into Pro Tools.
1) The wav sounded just as bad as the original. Still boomy, still absurd.
2) So I tried the original bounce to disk (admittedly, I did Pro Tools 11's new offline bounce, but surely this isn't a problem?) This one I just tried as an mp3. Still terrible quality.
3) From what I have looked up, I don't see a hidden setting that's normalizing my audio. Maybe my playback software is normalizing it and I just need a more balanced mix?
4) I tried the regular Pro Tools Dither. No luck there.
5) I tried windows media player, quick time, then downloaded spotify and imported the playlist from windows media. No luck.
6) Limiter on (while it did close the gap between bass boominess and volume of other instruments) did not help that much.
7) With the file reimported into pro tools, it sounded nice and clean again, so it doesn't seem like it's the export itself.
Any ideas?
