I am an amateur guitarist having trouble burning my music to CD-R's. I have a digital multitrack recorder that exports 44KHz 16bit stereo wave files to my PC. These files sound great when played directly off my hard drive, but when I burn them to a CD-R, the resulting playback is very distorted and much louder than the original wave. If I normalize to -6db (using SoundForge) before burning, the resulting file sounds good on the CD. Some of my songs only require -2.5db normalization to burn clean. What is causing the level increase when I burn to a CD and the resulting distortion? Reducing the level by normalization eliminates the distortion but each different songs seems to require different normalization settings which is a pain. I am running Windows 2000 Pro SP3, EzCd Creator 5.3.2.34, Sony CRX-145E CD-RW, and Fuji 80 minute media. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. Wbullard
Well, thanks for nothing. What a lame message board. I fixed the problem myself. Next time I'll look somewhere useful for help.
try using feurio to burn the cd...use the wave editor to balance the volumes.. go to www.feurio.com to get the program and go to http://entiendo.gotnet.net to see how to balance to volumes...it will do it without affecting the original track..
Thanks for the reply. I appreciate your taking the time to respond. I found that the waves that I burn to CD only sound distorted when played back from the CD through my computer speaker system. The same CD sounds normal on a car or home stereo. I am confused about this as a factory music CD sounds good through my pc speakers as do my waves when played from the hard drive. My main worry was to get good sound quality through a car or home stereo, so I will chalk up the poor CD sound quality through my PC as a quirk of the sound card. Thanks again, Wbullard
