diffrence in sound, DAW to iTunes

ali jamieson · Post by **ali jamieson** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 12:05 pm

So i've been wanting this tune out of a set, and since I can't find it i decided to chop it out of a set. After pulling it into my DAW I realised it sounds slightly different [there's no plug-ins on either the channel trip or master, even bypassed ones]

basically it seems to have lost some real bottom end... Logic is running at 44.1 kHz, standard bit rate... I have no idea why this could be

has anyone found similar problems ? ?

Ali

junglist · Post by **junglist** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 12:20 pm

I've never had that problem before. But if low end is still weak then double up the track in your DAW and slap a low pass filter on one of them at around 300Htz pump up the DB on that layer.

fixation · Post by **fixation** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 12:33 pm

cut it out in audacity, ive never had any problems with that

ali jamieson · Post by **ali jamieson** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 12:37 pm

on closer examination it's not *just* the low end, it's the entirety of the track seems EQd slightly diffrently or compressed in some way...

theonelikepaul · Post by **theonelikepaul** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 1:09 pm

Does iTunes have any EQ settings that you might have overlooked ?

i.e. perhaps the bass is higher on iTunes, and when you import the same file into your DAW it sounds flat.

alpha zulu · Post by **alpha zulu** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 1:12 pm

You probably have the EQ settings turned on in itunes, but the program alos adds its own compression to all audio in its playlists which will also effect the sound, but this is so subtle i doubt thats whats causing the difference

lilt · Post by **lilt** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 8:05 pm

just remember, if you do have to just EQ it:
dont bass BOOST;
EQ everything else DOWN

otherwise you end up with all sorts of problems, miniscule harmonics, distortion etc.

mrhope · Post by **mrhope** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 9:19 pm

Turn off the iTunes EQ settings and also go into the iTunes preferences/setttings and turn off the audio enhancer. I forget what it's called, but it's there.

slim · Post by **slim** » Wed Aug 06, 2008 1:13 pm

I've heard rumours that itunes actually has a compressor built in to make things seem louder and more punchy, but that is only based on speculation, could be crap.

ali jamieson · Post by **ali jamieson** » Thu Aug 07, 2008 11:46 am

my iTunes has no EQ on it, i like everything au-natural.

it actually sounds far better in iTunes, if anything over compressed and badly EQ'd in logic

someone suggested logic may encode mp3s strangely... however it shouldn't sound *that* bad!

spencertron · Post by **spencertron** » Thu Aug 07, 2008 12:12 pm

ali jamieson wrote:So i've been wanting this tune out of a set, and since I can't find it i decided to chop it out of a set. After pulling it into my DAW I realised it sounds slightly different [there's no plug-ins on either the channel trip or master, even bypassed ones]

basically it seems to have lost some real bottom end... Logic is running at 44.1 kHz, standard bit rate... I have no idea why this could be

has anyone found similar problems ? ?

Ali

Check dithering options, uncheck normalize, Logic looses/reduces data when summing up anyway and will be lighter.

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