sounds like the volume might be to high
I have all my drums mic'd and run them through a line mixer, along with my ipod. Then out through a splitter - one to my ear buds, one to my recorder. Mix it out and sounds great playing it back from the recorder, AND, on older computers. But...when I try to play these same files on my ipad or new work computer, they sound completely distorted. I can barely hear the ipod and my drums sound like - blip-pt-blip-blip-pt. The recording encoding is set to the highest quality of mp3.
Any ideas? Thanks.
One frustrated texdrumr,
Randy
sounds like the volume might be to high
Thanks Itchie. I'll try turning everything down and re-record.
I can't believe I just typed that..."I will turn it down".
Well, that didn't make a difference. I've tried every combination I can think of. I did discover that as long as I'm listening to the songs through ear buds, even on the newer computers, they sound great. It's only when listening via the external speakers.
I think I have figured our your problem ... Your using computer speakers
Is that sarcasm or are you being serious? I'm new to all this so I really don't know. And, why would the computer speakers matter?
Hey Tex. maybe I can help a little. There are a ton of reasons why a mix will sound good on rig and not another. One aspect is... Does it transport? Meaning... When I plug my mix in my car stereo does it sound the same as the studio or does it sound the same as the computer soeakers or the home stereo. This is a hard concept to get the mind around. When you are mixing your song say in your headphones you might be missing frequencies that are actually present but your headphones cant push the frequencies for what ever reason ( eq is turned on while you are mixing or the headphones can't physically push the frequency). This in turn will cause you to push up delequent frequencies and cut too high frequencies that were just fine but artificially boosted in that sound atmosphere therefore when you put in your home stereo etc all of the sudden the frequencies show up (either too high or low)in all of there glory creating a poor end product. This maybe some of you problem. Also I don't know how your rig is set up so you could be gain staging(I.e. summing each plugin, hardware device and track as the wave file runs through everything causing clipping on you master bus. Hope that helps a little.
Last edited by nucjd; 03-23-2012 at 07:16 PM.
Studio build up thread:
http://www.drumchat.com/showthread.p...dio-16527.html
its just going to be a matter of elimination ...
do those speakers work fine with other music?
im assuming you added the song to your itunes and then added to your iproducts
sounds like an encoding fail to me....320kbps mp3's are fairly small but totally audible
Itchie - first, thanks for your continued effort on this.
Yes to the itunes question and mp3 resolution size. Iproducts? What's that? I will research and see what I come up with. Again, the sound quality is pretty good for my 'poor-man's-approach', through ear buds/head phones. It's just when I play it through external speakers.
dazed and confused,
Tex
Hey Tex if you are mixing in ear buds that is probably the problem. if you look at the freq specs of ear buds the low is horribly deficient ( about 12 db down on the lower spectrum). Therefore to get that level of the spectrum to the audible sound on earbuds you are going to have to use an exponentially large amount of energy to get those levels. Now you stick it on the computer speakers (which are not designed to push that freq with that much energy and viola cone excursion on your computer speakers and distortion on your track.
Studio build up thread:
http://www.drumchat.com/showthread.p...dio-16527.html
iproduct as in iphone, ipod, ipad, itouch, ispleen, ipoop
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