Ok, I´m fed up! I give up!! It just won´t work out, so I have to look for some help from you experts out there.
Problem:
No matter how good a take sounds in Reaper with all the subtleties of doubling and panning - the mp3 or wav file which is rendered sounds dull/crappy and most of the times one of the tracks is too loud or too low.
SetUp:
Electric Guitar straight into Focusrite Saffire LE (which I use as main and only soundhardware for my PC) which goes into the PC (via Firewire)
I´m just going to ask a couple of questions which might be usefull to help me get on my way to finally getting the sound I HEAR into the audio file! Here we go:
-) The first thing I notice, is, that the sound in Reaper is way louder than the windows standard. I have to decrase volume immediately.
Interestingly enough the waveform of the guitarinput is rather low. Any idea why?
-) What´s the advantage of having a track with FX which recieves the guitar input over applying the FX to the guitar track itself?!
-) I´m rendering the mastertrack with 48000 - is there a specific (obviously hidden feature for me) setting which controls the "quality" of the take?
It´s really my MAIN question: Why (oh why!) can´t I get the same audio quality I hear (over monitors AND Headphones) into the audio file?
Has it something to do with all the track routing stuff? Sends/Recieves/HardwareOutput and so on....I mainly leave them be, but I have tried to play around with them for a bit - the result is mainly the same: crappy audio file!
REALLY would appreciate any help from you guys!
Cheers muchly!
Berglmir
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Berglmir Recording, Mixing & Rendering With Reaper Dec 10 2009, 04:19 PM
