Bad quality of sound

[Goa Travellers]

Hello,

 

I have a home studio with a computer, a few synths, a mixer, etc... When I play my tunes using Cubase and the MIDI interfaces, the sound is very good, but if I record the tune and mix it with musics from famous artists taken from audio CDs, their music has a good quality of sound and when arrives MY tune, the sound quality of not very good, it sounds like I recorded the using using a microphone, the sound lacks "power", it sounds weak. Do you know what is missing?

Thanks,

[Aeros]

Can you post a link to your song so we can hear it?

[acidkills]

Hello,

 

I have a home studio with a computer, a few synths, a mixer, etc... When I play my tunes using Cubase and the MIDI interfaces, the sound is very good, but if I record the tune and mix it with musics from famous artists taken from audio CDs, their music has a good quality of sound and when arrives MY tune, the sound quality of not very good, it sounds like I recorded the using using a microphone, the sound lacks "power", it sounds weak. Do you know what is missing?

Thanks,

Try to read some mixing tutorials and lot about compressors.. Search on isratrance, theres a lot of Mother of all.. topics..

[Veracohr]

For one thing, music from a commercial CD has been mastered.

 

For another thing, it just takes practice. Outside of the electronic music world, few musicians are engineers, and for good reason.

[Aeros]

This will also help you understand things abit: http://www.tweakheadz.com/guide.htm

 

Theres alot involved in making audio sound good, too much stuff to talk about generally really, but as veracohr says - the more you do it the better you will get - as for things on CDs - an audio engineer has increased the sound quality by mastering - something that your own music does not have unless you find ways of doing it yourself.

[pixxxan]

all the synths and mixers or any outboard or soft gear wont be enough without proper monitoring, dont know whats ur case but anyway , even a good mix will sound weaker compared to commercial cds as said cause of the mastering-volume..

also what bit depth and sample rate u using?. try always mix and render in 32 bit floating. also the quality of the analog-digital converters is very important factor. as they say your sound is as good as the weaker link of ur signal chain.

 

hope that helps