Left and Right Volume not the same when burning

Mr.G wrote:
> Hi and I get a nice stereo mix in the headphones but when I go to burn
> it to CD the Right Volume is higher. Any idea what could be causing
> this? thanks

One of the drivers is down in level on your phones ? What do the level
meters look like ? Is there something else in your system where levels
could get askew ? You CD player is crook ?

You really haven't given enoughg info to make a meaningful guess.

geoff

On Jun 12, 10:18 pm, "geoff" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Mr.G wrote:
> > Hi and I get a nice stereo mix in the headphones but when I go to burn
> > it to CD the Right Volume is higher. Any idea what could be causing
> > this? thanks
>
> One of the drivers is down in level on your phones ? What do the level
> meters look like ? Is there something else in your system where levels
> could get askew ? You CD player is crook ?
>
> You really haven't given enoughg info to make a meaningful guess.
>
> geoff

Yea and I'm sorry, I checked my system with a commercial CD and the
volumes are the same except when I burn a CD.

Mr.G <[email protected]> wrote:
>Hi and I get a nice stereo mix in the headphones but when I go to burn
>it to CD the Right Volume is higher. Any idea what could be causing
>this? thanks

Maybe it's whatever burning software you're using. Maybe it's whatever
operating system you're using. Maybe it has something to do with the
editing software, whatever that is.
--scott
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

"Mr.G" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi and I get a nice stereo mix in the headphones but when I go to burn
> it to CD the Right Volume is higher. Any idea what could be causing
> this? thanks

Because you're an amateur, not a pro like the rest of us here.

Go back to the kiddie pool!

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"Mr.G" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Hi and I get a nice stereo mix in the headphones but when
> I go to burn it to CD the Right Volume is higher.

I think that what you are saying is that monitoring your mixdown via your
mixing software and headphones does not provide the same perception of
channel balance as auditioning the CD that you burned and audition via some
undisclosed means.

> Any idea what could be causing this? thanks

The difference you hear may due to the difference in how you are auditioning
the two different situations. You haven't disclosed how you audition your
CDs. If you do it on say the stereo in your living room, differences in the
headphones and your stereo in your living room could explain what you hear.

Or, it may be due to some settings or processing you have in your CD burning
software. For example, if you normalize tracks during burning, that can
change the soundstage or the channel balance.

On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 06:46:48 -0400, "Arny Krueger" <[email protected]>
wrote:

>> Hi and I get a nice stereo mix in the headphones but when
>> I go to burn it to CD the Right Volume is higher.
>
>I think that what you are saying is that monitoring your mixdown via your
>mixing software and headphones does not provide the same perception of
>channel balance as auditioning the CD that you burned and audition via some
>undisclosed means.

Yes, but he said it rather more clearly, and in considerably fewer
words :-)


>
>> Any idea what could be causing this? thanks
>
>The difference you hear may due to the difference in how you are auditioning
>the two different situations. You haven't disclosed how you audition your
>CDs. If you do it on say the stereo in your living room, differences in the
>headphones and your stereo in your living room could explain what you hear.
>
>Or, it may be due to some settings or processing you have in your CD burning
>software. For example, if you normalize tracks during burning, that can
>change the soundstage or the channel balance.

So you feel it must be some hardware or software fault? :-)

"Laurence Payne" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]
> On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 06:46:48 -0400, "Arny Krueger"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>> Hi and I get a nice stereo mix in the headphones but
>>> when I go to burn it to CD the Right Volume is higher.
>>
>> I think that what you are saying is that monitoring your
>> mixdown via your mixing software and headphones does not
>> provide the same perception of channel balance as
>> auditioning the CD that you burned and audition via some
>> undisclosed means.

> Yes, but he said it rather more clearly, and in
> considerably fewer words :-)

He left out some critical details, like he didn't disclose the means he was
using to audition the CD.

>>> Any idea what could be causing this? thanks
>
>> The difference you hear may due to the difference in how
>> you are auditioning the two different situations. You
>> haven't disclosed how you audition your CDs. If you do
>> it on say the stereo in your living room, differences in
>> the headphones and your stereo in your living room could
>> explain what you hear.
>>
>> Or, it may be due to some settings or processing you
>> have in your CD burning software. For example, if you
>> normalize tracks during burning, that can change the
>> soundstage or the channel balance.

> So you feel it must be some hardware or software fault?

I doubt that it is either. I think its a unintended but natural consequence
of something that he has told the software or hardware to do.

On Jun 13, 5:46 am, "Arny Krueger" <[email protected]> wrote:
> "Mr.G" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>
> news:[email protected]
>
> > Hi and I get a nice stereo mix in the headphones but when
> > I go to burn it to CD the Right Volume is higher.
>
> I think that what you are saying is that monitoring your mixdown via your
> mixing software and headphones does not provide the same perception of
> channel balance as auditioning the CD that you burned and audition via some
> undisclosed means.
>
> > Any idea what could be causing this? thanks
>
> The difference you hear may due to the difference in how you are auditioning
> the two different situations. You haven't disclosed how you audition your
> CDs. If you do it on say the stereo in your living room, differences in the
> headphones and your stereo in your living room could explain what you hear.
>
> Or, it may be due to some settings or processing you have in your CD burning
> software. For example, if you normalize tracks during burning, that can
> change the soundstage or the channel balance.

Ok and hoping you get this by eMail, I am auditioning the CD on my
living room system that shows a difference in volume with the CD's I
burn. Thanks

"Mr.G" wrote ...
> I am auditioning the CD on my living room system that shows
> a difference in volume with the CD's I burn. Thanks

Are you saying that CDs you burn are not as "loud" as commercial
CDs? If that is what you are saying, then it is normal. Commercial
CDs have the snot compressed out of them arnd are guaranteed to
sound "louder" than home-made CDs.

If you are saying that the left/right balance is "off", then what does
the CD sound like when you play it on other equipment (like on the
computer where you burrned the CD?) You could try making a
"mono" test CD with exactly the same audio on both sides. See if
you still hear a balanced discrepency.

>
> Are you saying that CDs you burn are not as "loud" as commercial
> CDs?

Remember to read the thread, and failing that, glance
at the subject line :)
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On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 20:16:05 -0700 (PDT), "Mr.G" <[email protected]>
wrote:

>Hi and I get a nice stereo mix in the headphones but when I go to burn
>it to CD the Right Volume is higher. Any idea what could be causing
>this? thanks


Put the recorded file into a wav editor and look at the waveform. Does
one side LOOK louder?

Either your headphones or your playback system are giving a false
picture. Maybe a setting, maybe faulty equipment.

Listen to other things on the headphones. Play other things through
the playback system.

If you were editing or processing the sound with some program you'd
have mentioned it,of course?