Cymbals sound garbled when mixxing down -ACID Product Family

Subject:Cymbals sound garbled when mixxing down Posted by: Lyxx Date:12/6/2001 2:33:04 AM When creating drum tracks everything sounds fine, until I mix them down to a stereo wav or aif file. The cymbals sound like a wavy recording, like they were recorded to hot, and none of the other drums sound like this. Even when I bring the volume down on the cymbal track. The cymbals are one shots from the disk called "Drum Tools" by Loops for Acid. Any help would be great! Thanx, Lyxx
Subject:RE: Cymbals sound garbled when mixxing down Reply by: grantb Date:12/6/2001 8:43:58 AM I've noticed the same thing happening with vocals when saving ACID tracks to a mixed .wav file. something to do with that register of sound, I think. Someone who knows - is there a workaround?
Subject:RE: Cymbals sound garbled when mixxing down Reply by: mattlok Date:12/11/2001 4:32:23 PM Hi There, It sounds like you have what they call a "phasing" issue or a sample stretch in terms of retaining the same note on various BPM speed. There are 2 things you can check or try. quick note - I mix everydown to a 16 channel sound board which will give you really good optimal control over the compression and equaliztion, also it can keep the sound warm. But I had a similar problem with certain hi-hats and sustained notes. First thing to avoid phasing, make sure the loop is in stereo and not in a 2-channel mono. Usually a sutle delay and reverb can fix that. The other option to fix that stretch sounding noise is to change the loop segment to a pitch segment. Usually this will pitch up the tone a bit but it will give you a cleaner sound in the highs. Hope this helps. MattLok Label Director Foru01 Recordings www.four01recordings.com

Subject:Cymbals sound garbled when mixxing down

Posted by: Lyxx

Date:12/6/2001 2:33:04 AM

When creating drum tracks everything sounds fine, until I mix them down to a stereo wav or aif file. The cymbals sound like a wavy recording, like they were recorded to hot, and none of the other drums sound like this. Even when I bring the volume down on the cymbal track.
The cymbals are one shots from the disk called "Drum Tools" by Loops for Acid. Any help would be great!

Thanx,
Lyxx

Subject:RE: Cymbals sound garbled when mixxing down

Reply by: grantb

Date:12/6/2001 8:43:58 AM

I've noticed the same thing happening with vocals when saving ACID tracks to a mixed .wav file. something to do with that register of sound, I think.

Someone who knows - is there a workaround?

Subject:RE: Cymbals sound garbled when mixxing down

Reply by: mattlok

Date:12/11/2001 4:32:23 PM

Hi There,

It sounds like you have what they call a "phasing" issue or a sample stretch in terms of retaining the same note on various BPM speed. There are 2 things you can check or try.

** quick note ** - I mix everydown to a 16 channel sound board which will give you really good optimal control over the compression and equaliztion, also it can keep the sound warm. But I had a similar problem with certain hi-hats and sustained notes.

First thing to avoid phasing, make sure the loop is in stereo and not in a 2-channel mono. Usually a sutle delay and reverb can fix that.

The other option to fix that stretch sounding noise is to change the loop segment to a pitch segment. Usually this will pitch up the tone a bit but it will give you a cleaner sound in the highs.

Hope this helps.

MattLok
Label Director
Foru01 Recordings
www.four01recordings.com