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Originally Posted by Waffleness  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.
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.  |
I understand that (and thank you for your input
) but my point initially regarded the major problems I was having with the .WAV mixdown (which is the general point being made in the thread). The Cubase mix in the console sounds great - then to .WAV mixdown it sounds quieter, less vibrant and less dynamic. So having tried one quick fix option (lowering the stereo output channel to just below 0db and then normalising the whole recording to 0db) didn't solve my audio problem AND to top it all off I had the hi hat making a weird 'phasing' sound in the mixdown that wasn't there in the Cubase original mix.
I just think that a reasonable WMA mixdown is preferable to a bad .WAV one if it corrects an issue in the short term. Obviously the idea is to attempt a proper fix so that the .WAV mixdown sounds like the original Cubase mix.
Read a bit on here and it seems as though it's a compression and limiter problem (I've joined the many others with this problem). So until i understand more about compressing and limiting, that's the best I can come up with for now.
However, any advice offered to a complete newbie will be gratefully received