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Subject:Recording Quality in Acid Posted by: Axis Date:11/10/1999 1:58:00 PM I am having trouble producing CD quality sound in Acid. The Acid songs I burn to CD are not nearly as loud or full as professional audio CDs. Before you say, "well duh!" - all I really want to know is if it is possible to create comparable CD quality with Acid. Do I need to use an FX on every track? Mix the song way in the red - like 6.5 or so - to gain volume? Anyone have tricks?
Subject:Re: Recording Quality in Acid Reply by: Dogcreek Date:11/17/1999 11:39:00 PM Daniel wrote: >>I am having trouble producing CD quality sound in Acid. The >>Acid songs I burn to CD are not nearly as loud or full as >>professional audio CDs. Before you say, "well duh!" - all I >>really want to know is if it is possible to create >>comparable CD quality with Acid. Do I need to use an FX on >>every track? Mix the song way in the red - like 6.5 or so - >>to gain volume? Anyone have tricks? >>
Subject:Re: Recording Quality in Acid Reply by: Dogcreek Date:11/17/1999 11:51:00 PM Daniel wrote: >>I am having trouble producing CD quality sound in Acid. The >>Acid songs I burn to CD are not nearly as loud or full as >>professional audio CDs. Before you say, "well duh!" - all I >>really want to know is if it is possible to create >>comparable CD quality with Acid. Do I need to use an FX on >>every track? Mix the song way in the red - like 6.5 or so - >>to gain volume? Anyone have tricks? >> Try copying your songs as wav files into Sound Forge and using some of the tools there to improve your sound quality and overall volume. If it is the tracks that you recorded into Acid (ie, vocals etc) that sound bad or weak, then the problem may be with your sound card or mic setup. As a rule, when home produced CDR's are directly compared to commercial CD's there will be a noticeable difference in volume and presence. Why? because most of the commercial CD's were done with huge recording budgets and mega-highend recording gear. Utilizing a mastering tool like Sound Forge will give you way better results after you learn to use tools like "normalize" and EQ. Also, you may want to look into getting a really nice sounding monitoring setup for your PC. Often times a low quality set of speakers or gritty 16 bit sound card can alter the mix you place on CDR. Then when you listen to it on good gear the mix will sound awful. Hope this helps. Jeff

Subject:Recording Quality in Acid

Posted by: Axis

Date:11/10/1999 1:58:00 PM

I am having trouble producing CD quality sound in Acid. The
Acid songs I burn to CD are not nearly as loud or full as
professional audio CDs. Before you say, "well duh!" - all I
really want to know is if it is possible to create
comparable CD quality with Acid. Do I need to use an FX on
every track? Mix the song way in the red - like 6.5 or so -
to gain volume? Anyone have tricks?

Subject:Re: Recording Quality in Acid

Reply by: Dogcreek

Date:11/17/1999 11:39:00 PM

Subject:Re: Recording Quality in Acid

Reply by: Dogcreek

Date:11/17/1999 11:51:00 PM

Daniel wrote:
>>I am having trouble producing CD quality sound in Acid. The
>>Acid songs I burn to CD are not nearly as loud or full as
>>professional audio CDs. Before you say, "well duh!" - all I
>>really want to know is if it is possible to create
>>comparable CD quality with Acid. Do I need to use an FX on
>>every track? Mix the song way in the red - like 6.5 or so -
>>to gain volume? Anyone have tricks?
>>

Try copying your songs as wav files into Sound Forge and using
some of the tools there to improve your sound quality and overall
volume.

If it is the tracks that you recorded into Acid (ie, vocals etc)
that sound bad or weak, then the problem may be with your sound card
or mic setup.

As a rule, when home produced CDR's are directly compared to commercial CD's there will be a noticeable difference in volume and presence. Why? because most of the commercial CD's were done with huge recording budgets and mega-highend recording gear.

Utilizing a mastering tool like Sound Forge will give you way better results after you learn to use tools like "normalize" and EQ. Also, you may want to look into getting a really nice sounding monitoring setup for your PC. Often times a low quality set of speakers or gritty 16 bit sound card can alter the mix you place on CDR. Then when you listen to it on good gear the mix will sound awful.

Hope this helps. Jeff