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wbullard

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11. January 2003 @ 14:58

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I am an amateur guitarist having trouble burning my music to CD-R's. I have a digital multitrack recorder that exports 44KHz 16bit stereo wave files to my PC. These files sound great when played directly off my hard drive, but when I burn them to a CD-R, the resulting playback is very distorted and much louder than the original wave. If I normalize to -6db (using SoundForge) before burning, the resulting file sounds good on the CD. Some of my songs only require -2.5db normalization to burn clean. What is causing the level increase when I burn to a CD and the resulting distortion? Reducing the level by normalization eliminates the distortion but each different songs seems to require different normalization settings which is a pain. I am running Windows 2000 Pro SP3, EzCd Creator 5.3.2.34, Sony CRX-145E CD-RW, and Fuji 80 minute media. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Wbullard

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wbullard

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14. January 2003 @ 13:54

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Well, thanks for nothing. What a lame message board.

I fixed the problem myself.

Next time I'll look somewhere useful for help.

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dbecker

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15. January 2003 @ 14:06

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try using feurio to burn the cd...use the wave editor to balance the volumes.. go to www.feurio.com to get the program and go to http://entiendo.gotnet.net to see how to balance to volumes...it will do it without affecting the original track..

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wbullard

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15. January 2003 @ 14:35

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Thanks for the reply. I appreciate your taking the time to respond.

I found that the waves that I burn to CD only sound distorted when played back from the CD through my computer speaker system. The same CD sounds normal on a car or home stereo. I am confused about this as a factory music CD sounds good through my pc speakers as do my waves when played from the hard drive. My main worry was to get good sound quality through a car or home stereo, so I will chalk up the poor CD sound quality through my PC as a quirk of the sound card.

Thanks again,

Wbullard

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