Yeah I know about the EQ and sound enhancer, turns out the EQ was activated after all. I don't remember ever messing with it before but the bass frequencies were at about half volume. I don't know why the hell anyone would do that.

What a stupid mistake. Three damned years of listening to my music thinking the bass was quieter than it really was. No wonder my tracks always sounded bass-heavy on other systems.

Ugh.

i cant believe what im reading lol

edit: the most correct threadtitle-award goes to you haha

edit2: why do you even preview your songs in iTunes only? use quicktime or something else more instant, iTunes is the worst prog ever for instant random mp3s and shit. use Preview or even just the fileexplorer.

Last edited by Zak McKracken on Feb-07-2011 at 17:58

Just for fun try foobar 2000

There is something else to also be aware of. If you are using Windows 7, ensure that "Disable all Enhancements" is checked in the properties section for your audio device as it totally messes with your sound. For the longest time I couldn't figure out why all the music I was listening to on my PC sounded strange and colored. You have to dig a bit to find it. Here is a screenshot:

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Thanks, I'm planning on upgrading to 7 soon so I'll keep an eye out for that

yeah in windows 7 it was hell to find out. had a problem at a friends house some weeks ago, had to dive all kinds of places into things, probably due to the shitty internal soundcard software. but its pretty easy to hear when something like that is going on, and thats whats makes this thread a little lol. you should have noticed that it was different from when u where making it. ESPECIALLY since its you making it.

Last edited by Zak McKracken on Feb-07-2011 at 19:06

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Originally posted by Kysora Yeah I know about the EQ and sound enhancer, turns out the EQ was activated after all. I don't remember ever messing with it before but the bass frequencies were at about half volume. I don't know why the hell anyone would do that. What a stupid mistake. Three damned years of listening to my music thinking the bass was quieter than it really was. No wonder my tracks always sounded bass-heavy on other systems. Ugh.

This is a common problem when mixing with headphones.

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Originally posted by ken_lee you should have noticed that it was different from when u where making it. ESPECIALLY since its you making it.

I don't think you get it, I literally can't listen to my tracks in the DAW as I'm mixing. Any part of the song that has more than 4 or 5 layers has so much latency and clipping that it runs at about 20-40 BPM, and there's so much noise I can't accurately hear anything. I export new versions of the track every few bars or any time I add a new synth just so I can hear what the hell I'm doing. I do this at least 50 or so times before the song is done. And I've always used iTunes for that, giving me a bad reference of what I'm doing the whole time.

I used to that have that problem before. I would bounce the CPU intensive sounds into wav and it really has not given me any problems.

And then I got a new computer.

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Originally posted by Kysora I don't think you get it, I literally can't listen to my tracks in the DAW as I'm mixing. Any part of the song that has more than 4 or 5 layers has so much latency and clipping that it runs at about 20-40 BPM, and there's so much noise I can't accurately hear anything. I export new versions of the track every few bars or any time I add a new synth just so I can hear what the hell I'm doing. I do this at least 50 or so times before the song is done. And I've always used iTunes for that, giving me a bad reference of what I'm doing the whole time.

you have a few options from here: learn to bounce or work more effective (less instruments), buy a new computer or get a new hobby.

im shocked anyone work like this, its really fucking retarded. its like painting in blind and watching the result afterwards.

edit: seriously, get a grip!

Last edited by Zak McKracken on Feb-07-2011 at 21:04