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Do PCs Burn Weak CDs?


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No problem with my setup. CPA 9 and a sony burner. cds come out as they should This message has been edited by Rod CA on 10-03-2001 at 02:36 AM

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Have you read in any music FROM a CD *digitally* and compared the volumes of "commercial CD's" to that of your files? Coz in general, unless you master your stuff and do so *extremely well* you simply DO NOT come up to the average RMS dB level of a commercial release. If the "apparent level" of your CD player vs. your "WAV file" is the same, it is probably because your CD player is turned down in your computer mixer!! Most mastered stuff these days have the peaks at 0 dBFS and the valleys no lower than -12dBFS - not much of a dynamic range but BOY is it loud! Have you spectrally optimized, multiband-compressed, compressed again and then peak-limited, followed by transient enhancement on your file? If not, thats it [img]http://www.musicplayer.com/ubb/biggrin.gif[/img] /Z
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try this: use a digital audio extractor (ez cd da extactor is a good one and can be had at download.com) to 'rip' a wav file from the Loud Major Label Rock cd of your choice. open this wav file in your editing software. look at the waveform and compare it to yours. what you'll see is that the file you ripped has no real dynamic range... the waveform forms pretty much a solid line at 0db, which is why it sounds louder. the peaks are no louder, but the average level is. this, in my opinion is not a good thing.
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[quote]Originally posted by Anderton: [b]<> I think Zap has nailed the problem.[/b][/quote] OK, Thanks guys, Now where do I go from here - Digital Mastering 101? I saw a reference somewhere in here about Mastering step by step or something like that. Where do I find this? Does Sonar XL have the tools needed to do all this? Please point me in the direction I need to go. Thanks again for helping with my Mastering woes. medford
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