Recording and Mastering

[Guest Entity]

Ok,

 

I have finished some decent tracks that i would like to burn to CD.

 

These songs sound incredible.... coming out of my system. Getting that sound on to a cd is a problem.

 

i am playing a wav mixed down from Cubase through a mackie analog mixer in to a nice hi fi system.

 

How do you people record and master.

 

I have a Mini Disk but no DAT yet.

 

I can get a clear recording on to mini disk, but how to get it on to cd?

 

I can't just burn the wav because it does not have the umph that the mixer gives it.

 

Any one?

 

What do you do to get a powerfull sound on to a CD?

 

Thanx

[Guest antic]

heh... This is the problem all beginners (like me) are facing with...

 

The thing you're doing wrong from the start is that you listen to your music through hi-fi system, which probably has things like "bass-boost", "surround" and various equalizer presets or settings. When you choose samples and place them in track you think they're loud enough, have right frequency characteristics and so on, but in fact the output-sound you get from your hi-fi is "not true", I mean it's falsed by hi-fi presets and settings. The "true" sound is the one you get from wav file burned on CD!!!

 

Solution - buy monitor speakers that have neutral eq-setting or try to turn of all of effects and presets in your hi-fi (in mackie mixer too!). This should give you reasonably "true" sound of your track - then you should equalize it properly to achieve the sound picture you want. It's that simple

[Guest Slidingtrancer]

I solved this problem... I have my computers sound connected to my stereo and I just put the eq on 'source direct'... this seems to do the trick... otherwise the song sounds phat here and sound awfull for the listener. Anyway, EQ and compress it... thats the key my friend