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isn't easy, is it?
Your .wav file sounds
great, you spent 1004 hours recording and mixing the thing, you use your
sequencing program to turn the .wav into an MP3, and GACK! A distorted
mess that sounds like both of your speakers blew. Maybe they did. But
either way, it isn't what it sounded like when you heard the .wav file.
What to do?
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Don't use the sequencing program
to make your MP3s is the first thing on the list. CoolEdit2000 is the shit and
easy to use. Music Match Jukebox is a freebie that does a fairly good job of
converting .wavs to MP3s, at least they are the standard format that sites like
MP3.com use.
The second thing to do is to
make two versions of the .wav file...the original for CD-burning, and another
one that you killed some of the bass on and brought the volume slightly down on.
Mp3s don't seem to know what to do with bass and too much of it sounds like a
slurpie just got poured in a tuba. So tone it down. Compression doesn't always seem to
help much for MP3s, but if you have CoolEdit2000, the RealAudio Compander works
great. Basically it pushes things in that are out and pushes things out that are
in...and if you understood what I just said you have a job at Realcranky.com....
Cranky
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