Cubase SX mix good, audio mixdown bad but..

[magno]

Originally Posted by brandondrury

Just curious. Wouldn't the compressor be overloaded while hitting play on the mix, too? I'm confused why there would be a difference between rendering and hitting play.

Brandon

I'm confused as well, <shrug>.
Quite frustrating actually.
But that's exactly what happened a couple of times.
I had to re-mix 2 or 3 times before I got rid of the distortion.
Totally inaudible while in playback, un-listenable after mixdown.
It felt like I was driving blind.
But there it was red clipping light on the compressor.
Anybody else ever experience this?

[magno]

And now that I think more about it, it was the compressor/limiter on the master bus.
I had it set for -0.1db or something but the final rendered mix was clipping by like 3db.
The problem has gone away lately tho.

[brandondrury]

That's an interesting bug. I've never encountered that one.

Brandon

[magno]

Maybe that's what happened to Metallica's new album, heh.