Cubase LE 4 audio mixdown

[dlelandh]

I am having troubles as well. I have the Lexicon Omega Cubase LE4. i export the recorded tracks to my desktop as a wav file. that works fine. i can even play the song using nero. but when i try to burn the song to a cd it says that the song cant be added to a compilation and the file may be corrupt (something along those lines). i think i may be doing something wrong in the exporting process. Please help if you can! anyone!

[Electriclight]

Originally Posted by dlelandh

I am having troubles as well. I have the Lexicon Omega Cubase LE4. i export the recorded tracks to my desktop as a wav file. that works fine. i can even play the song using nero. but when i try to burn the song to a cd it says that the song cant be added to a compilation and the file may be corrupt (something along those lines). i think i may be doing something wrong in the exporting process. Please help if you can! anyone!

You have to burn wav. file for CD as a 16 bit stereo file..Nothing else will play on CD. often Media player can play other bits rates but not a CD.

[mrblitz]

As for the inability to burn CDs, simply fire up 'goldwave' (most simple wav editors can probably do this), and 'save as' 16-bit, signed. If you see the default it's something like 16-bit IEEE or 24-bit something or other.

Anyway, I've got the same problem of the 'final' .wav file being 'quiet.'

I'm wondering about the 'normalization' feature in Cubase LE 4. If I exported a stereo mix, then re-imported it into the pool, would running 'process-normalize' on it help?

It sounds like the point about the entire mix being pushed down during a peak; that's the key.

It looks like I'm going to be spending some time trying to figure out how to best use compressors/limiters.

By the way, I really enjoy the entire 'Classic' series of VSTs.

Thanks for this thread, everyone.

[Electriclight]

Originally Posted by mrblitz

I'm wondering about the 'normalization' feature in Cubase LE 4. If I exported a stereo mix, then re-imported it into the pool, would running 'process-normalize' on it help?

It sounds like the point about the entire mix being pushed down during a peak; that's the key.

The normalize feature will not change the waveform shape..So you can only raise the level of the highest peak to 0dB. So this is not a tool for increasing loudness. A limiter cuts off those peaks and allows the gain to be pushed up much farther. This makes things louder but can be a heavy-handed approach if not used judiciously. Compression is a bit more sophisticated.