8 Nov
2010
8 Nov
'10
12:29 a.m.
On Sun, Nov 07, 2010 at 02:52:57PM -0800, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
On Sun, November 7, 2010 4:11 am, Sampo Savolainen
wrote:
You don't need very good speakers to do this. In fact it's more
difficult the better your gear is.
Most probably you have some distortion when playing back high
(digital) levels. This could be your sound card, or anything
after it in the signal chain.
If it's your sound card, the reason could be too high analog
gains (set either by the mixer app, or by HW controls), or
just the card being crap. It's easy to test, and resolving
this issue would clear up at least part of the fog.
Ciao,
--
FA
There are three of them, and Alleline.
In your shoes, I'd measure the playback
system and try to pinpoint the
part which is causing the distortion. If you tweak your mix to sound
good with the distortion your current system exhibits, the mix will not
sound like that anywhere else. So to make your mix sound good
everywhere, you have to have a clean setup as a reference.
(Note the word measure: this is the only way to get any sort of
objective results. )
Ideally I would have some very good speakers to do this step but that is
not currently possible for me.