Gary Koliger
08-21-2003, 10:23 AM
r u sure you've got your phasing in order? - just a though
Gary
Scott Dorsey wrote:
> Squares <squares@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >On 20 Aug 2003 15:03:08 -0400, kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) wrote:
> >>Squares <squares@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>I'm mixing down some songs on my Mackie analog board. I mix them down
> >>>to the balanced main outs on my Mackie, these are then fed into my
> >>>Apogee PSX-100 A/D, which then goes optically into my HHB-CDR800.
> >>>When I burn the CD and then play it in my car or wherever, it sounds
> >>>like it's had all the warmth and fullness and volume sucked out of it.
> >>
> >>How does it sound when you play it back on the burner on your studio
> >>monitors?
> >
> >Decent, but nothing I'm happy with.
>
> Okay, so you ARE happy with the mix coming out of the control room outputs
> into the studio monitors during the actual mixdown? But you are not happy
> with the mix coming when you play it back?
>
> And your levels are okay and you don't have a cable reversed?
>
> >>>What the hell am I doing wrong? Or is this burner just a piece of
> >>>junk? I have a feeling I'm doing something wrong. I have tried
> >>>running the signals into the HHB both optically, and direct from the
> >>>mixing board into the analog inputs of the HHB. Either way sounds
> >>>bad.
> >>
> >>I'd tend to suspect a monitoring problem.
>
> >I've adjusted my mix a bit and turned the volume of my monitors down,
> >while turning the volume of my mix bus up. This has helped quite a
> >bit. I'm beginning to suspect it's just my mix that needs more work
> >more so than my gear. I think I need to introduce some limiting in
> >there just before the Apogee...
>
> If it's your mix, it won't sound good during mixdown either. I think
> it may be a matter of getting to really know your monitors.
> --scott
>
> --
> "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."
Gary
Scott Dorsey wrote:
> Squares <squares@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >On 20 Aug 2003 15:03:08 -0400, kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) wrote:
> >>Squares <squares@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>I'm mixing down some songs on my Mackie analog board. I mix them down
> >>>to the balanced main outs on my Mackie, these are then fed into my
> >>>Apogee PSX-100 A/D, which then goes optically into my HHB-CDR800.
> >>>When I burn the CD and then play it in my car or wherever, it sounds
> >>>like it's had all the warmth and fullness and volume sucked out of it.
> >>
> >>How does it sound when you play it back on the burner on your studio
> >>monitors?
> >
> >Decent, but nothing I'm happy with.
>
> Okay, so you ARE happy with the mix coming out of the control room outputs
> into the studio monitors during the actual mixdown? But you are not happy
> with the mix coming when you play it back?
>
> And your levels are okay and you don't have a cable reversed?
>
> >>>What the hell am I doing wrong? Or is this burner just a piece of
> >>>junk? I have a feeling I'm doing something wrong. I have tried
> >>>running the signals into the HHB both optically, and direct from the
> >>>mixing board into the analog inputs of the HHB. Either way sounds
> >>>bad.
> >>
> >>I'd tend to suspect a monitoring problem.
>
> >I've adjusted my mix a bit and turned the volume of my monitors down,
> >while turning the volume of my mix bus up. This has helped quite a
> >bit. I'm beginning to suspect it's just my mix that needs more work
> >more so than my gear. I think I need to introduce some limiting in
> >there just before the Apogee...
>
> If it's your mix, it won't sound good during mixdown either. I think
> it may be a matter of getting to really know your monitors.
> --scott
>
> --
> "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."