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Why your music sounds different outside of your DAW

Post by didi » Tue Aug 28, 2012 2:32 am

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Re: Why your music sounds different outside of your DAW

Post by Ape Lust » Tue Aug 28, 2012 4:31 am

Another thing that is good to check is the "Advanced" tab under the Speakers Properties and check the quality setting. I thought everything I was rendering from FL sounded so bad until I configured those settings. After that the .wav I rendered sounded just like it did in FL. Check this thread out: http://www.dubstepforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=218965. OP totally gets smothered by comments about clipping and computer hardware when it was most likely this setting.

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Re: Why your music sounds different outside of your DAW

Post by ill mindset » Tue Aug 28, 2012 5:22 am

My Focusrite Scarlet 8i6 doesn't have a 24 bit option. Not a huge problem I imagine right? I'm only working at 441 too. I seem to have issues when I switch to 96hz. I'm not really recording anything. Does it matter?
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Re: Why your music sounds different outside of your DAW

Post by Gurnumsbug » Tue Aug 28, 2012 5:47 am

How did I not know about that 24bit option sooner?
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Re: Why your music sounds different outside of your DAW

Post by Ape Lust » Tue Aug 28, 2012 7:33 am

@ill mindset: I would say if you are not recording then it should not matter. The quality settings only affect the speaker output.

@Gurnumsbug: I only found this out recently as well while I was experiencing rendering issues in FL so don't feel too late.
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Re: Why your music sounds different outside of your DAW

Post by safeandsound » Tue Aug 28, 2012 10:47 am

The changes once in the outside world are endless.. headphones, speakers, sound card opamps, audio file formats, DA convertor, speaker placement, settings in media players - auto volume levelling, spatial adjustment, EQ, SRC etc.

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