On Saturday 14 April 2007 21:35, millward wrote: > times when no ones around. But the end result, the Audacity > project file, and the .WAV file I export from it, sounds just > fine. Its the burned CD-R on the sterio that sounds bland > compared with regular music CDs. Something is missing. These are some of my observations based on trial and error... I'm no engineer, nor an audiophile, just a guy who likes his music to sound "like a real record". If you're making something that sounds like almost any kind of popular music (pop, rock, country, even most jazz and folk) you're going to want to experiment with compression at the very least, since that's kinda standard on commercial releases nowadays and I assume that's what you're comparing to. Almost every recording nowadays has some reverb on it, even if only to simulate a room sound (unless it was actually recorded "live in the studio", in which case it's not necessary), so if your stuff sounds really dry and flat that'll probably help. Be subtle about it or you'll sound like you've recorded "Chant VIII". Also, if you're recording the bass directly with no amp simulation or any of that, it'll have no presence at all. You probably want to dirty it up a little, maybe with an overdrive or distortion plugin used judiciously. Rip a music CD that you think sounds great and look at the waveforms and at the frequency spectrum so you can get an idea of some things to try with EQ, compression, etc. But don't try to make yours look just like theirs because you'll end up overproducing it and instead of sounding bland it'll give us all ear fatigue. Rob _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-user
