jeddeth Posted November 21, 2005 Report Share Posted November 21, 2005 Hi! It's been a while since I've been around, I apologize.I spent a few months getting everything right and then just put it all away to deal with life. But I pulled out my minidisc this weekend and using everything I had discovered and learned from you guiys, I made an amazing recording at a show this weekend!So I used my MZ-RH10 with the radioshack attenuator and the Sound Professionals BMC-2.The recording came out amazing! Listening to it directly on the player is a surreal experience. It sounds like you are right there in the room again.But then I transferred it to the computer and convertered it to Wav and burned a cd and all of a sudden the volume is too quiet and the bass is a little iffy, the bass went from warm and perfect to humming and distorted. What happenes when the music transfers to the computer? Is there any reason why I would be loosing quality? I thought maybe it was my soundcard, but when you transfer into sonic stage using the USB connection the soundcrd doesn't have any effect, does it?Any suggestions?When I pumped up the volume using audacity to normalize it and/or amplify, it just made the bass sound much worse! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenmachine Posted November 21, 2005 Report Share Posted November 21, 2005 Let me guess: You've been listening to it via headphones at first versus now through loudspeakers. A binaural or hrtf recording will be much more involving through headphones no matter how much you tweak it for loudspeaker playback afterwards, it will loose the greatest part of its realism. Recording in a closed room with a significant distance from the source will emphasize the effect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeddeth Posted November 21, 2005 Author Report Share Posted November 21, 2005 (edited) Thank you so much for responding!I m not sure thats it. I burned a cd and put it on with headphones and the decrease in quality is pretty big.Do your recordings sound exactly the same on the minidisc and the burned cd? Edited November 21, 2005 by jeddeth Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A440 Posted November 22, 2005 Report Share Posted November 22, 2005 What are you playing the CD in? CD player (should be same as MD) or laptop (soundcard will limit fidelity)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dex Otaku Posted November 22, 2005 Report Share Posted November 22, 2005 Do your recordings sound exactly the same on the minidisc and the burned cd?Yes, they do.I would check for the following:Are you listening from the original disc with EQ on, and then listening to the CD without?How are the levels on the recording - how do they -look- in an editor? Is everything -looking- quiet, i.e. well below the -6dB line most editors show as half-amplitude? What proessing, if any, was used on the audio before burning it?There should be no audible difference between what you hear playing back on the recorder, what you hear on the PC after uploading, and what you hear from the CD you've burnt. I would look at the steps you followed for a difference somewhere in how you played back from one source vs. another, or something you [even unwittingly] did during upload and burning to account for the difference. Even something like switching the headphones or speakers you were listening with will make a huge difference. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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