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Originally Posted by andygee70  I had a Urika moment this morning. Decided to mixdown the audio in Cubase to WMA because it says that you don't lose anything in the quality of the audio after it compresses the file. |
Thats not true i'm afraid. If you encode a wav file to WMA, the audio quality will be decreased. Its just the way the WMA is encoded means its not drastically lower, just a bit.
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Originally Posted by andygee70 Mixed it down and compared it to the original track in Cubase and bingo there's no difference between the WMA and original Cubase audio (even though the file size is only about 12mb compared to the 50mb size that the wav file is after Cubase converstion). Still seems strange that a smaller file size sounds twice as good as one more than 4 times it's size. There's got to be a logical explaination for that. Does anyone know the reason why or am I missing something fundemental?
Now my next problem is converting from WMA to wav or MP3 |
I expect it sounds better because its either louder, or has an EQ on it (maybe from winder media player?).
I would highly recommend not converting the WMA to wav or Mp3. Always mix your cubase audio down to a .wav, and then move that into the file format you want. For example I mixdown all my Cubase files as .wav and then bounce them to mp3's. This way your not constantly re-encoding and ruining the audio.
