Emu XL-7 & MP-7 User's Group

Hi
Dont know whats going on with your CD burning procees to cause an EQ 
change..
If the track sounds ok once its been recorded on your PC then really 
there shouldnt be any differance just because you've burnt it onto CD.
In fact you might well find it sounds better on a decent CD player.
You can either do a peak normalise or a rms normalise on your track 
as the last process before you burn the CD.
Peak will scan the file for the highest peak on either the left and 
right channels (if set to do so)and if you set it to bring the level 
upto 0db (max..) then the loudest peak will be at 0db and everything 
else will be moved up by the same db amount as the peak was to get it 
to 0db.
if you use the rms way this averages the level over time so you can 
create blisteringly hot mixes. 
This way raises the levels of sounds above a threshold and is not 
directly connected with the highest peak in your recording as with 
peak normalise. If your creating dance stuff then rms would the way 
to go (if it suits the end result your after..)
So no more than -6db (between -14db to -6db) with rms. you might get 
settings to control how the audio is treated in respect to clipping 
as well. Dynamic compression or just leave the peak at 0db could be 
some options.
You should get some attack and release time control as well that is 
used in the calculation.
Also look out for multiband compressors as well.
As for the car stereo.. its pretty normal to have a jump up in volume 
when you switch from say tape, mine does it. It seems to be a common 
design failing. 



--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, "zerolatencyproductions" 
<zerolatencyproductions@y...> wrote:
> Man, I'm so pissed off right now!  I've been trying to get my songs 
> from the XL-7 to CD, which in itself isn't a problem.  The problem 
I'm 
> having is the end sound quality.  Everything sounds fine on the XL-
7 
> through my headphones or computer speakers.  I even took it over to 
my 
> friends house and plugged it up to his Yamaha reference speakers 
and 
> it sounded kick ass there.  So, I decided to make a master to CD.  
I'm 
> running the line-ins to my M-Audio Audiophile 2496, making the 
levels 
> as hot as possible without going into the red in the M-Audio 
Control 
> Panel.  That's routed into Cakewalk HS, making sure its levels stay 
as 
> hot as possible without going into the red.  I record it at 24-bit 
> with line-level EQ and export it as a 16-bit wav file.  Then I use 
> Nero Burning Rom to burn the wav file to CD.  Well, after all that 
the 
> CD comes out with to much bass and highs. Also, its way to quiet.  
So, 
> what I did was boost the volume of the song by 3db in Cakewalk 
after 
> recording, and cut the bass and highs in Nero.  The CD is still too 
> quiet.  Meaning, when I'm in my car I have to turn the radio all 
the 
> way up to start feeling the music and when I turn the CD off my 
radio 
> fucking blasts my eardrums out.  Has anyone else had this problem 
> before?  Thanks, Brandon.