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Question About Sound Recording Problem

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maddmaxx

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I am trying to help a friend troubleshoot a problem he's having with burning cd's of music he recorded himself. He used a Korg D8 to record the music, sent it to his computer through optical inputs on a SB Live Drive, and used Soundforge to mix it down. He then burned the songs to cd and the quality is crap. While listening to it during mixing, the quality great!!! What could be the cause of this difference in sound quality??? Is there some setting he my have overlooked in soundforge or his burning software (EZ CD) that would change the quality of a burned song? Any help is much appreciated!
 
make sure its saved as 44khz and 16bit---anything higher will sound like crap when converted to a CD.

as long as the final wav file to be burnt is redbook audio compatible it will sound exactly as it was on the hard drive.
 
Thanks for the input Hessakia!!! One more question....what is redbook audio compatible, and how do I tell if the files are compatible?
Thanks much for the help!!!

peace

 
It should be OK to save them as 16bit 44.1kHz wav file.
Redbook is the fileformat on Audio-CD. There is also a .dll that makes the audio files on a CD to show up as .wav files in Explorer.

🙂
 
Well, that's what he's saving and burning them as: 16 bit at 44.1kHz.....but for some reason what he gets on the cd is not what he's hearing when he's mixing. Thanks for all the help!!!

peace
 
well, are you mixing them through studio monitors? what are you listening the cd on?

It doesnt matter what rate you record the music... 24/96 or whatever.. you just gotta convert it to 16/44... almost every decent recording program will do that for you...

PS, it might be the SB... you might wanna try a prosumer level card or even a professional level card.... but that really wouldnt explain why it sounded great in mixing.... It should go onto the hd exactly as you hear it.... there must be some mistake on the conversion settings....

hope it helps..

FF
 
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