Cubase LE Help Please

Jerry Roller · Post by **Jerry Roller** » 22 Dec 2011 10:36 am

I am fulfledged newbee at recording and I have Cubase LE. I also have a Yamaha AW16G that I havn't figured out yet. I have imported a CD backing track into the Cubase Le and recorded steel with it and playback sounds very good to me. I exported the mixed song to MP3 and the playback is very poor quality with occasional skips and generally a lousy sound. Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong or am I expecting too much out of the program I am using? Do I need to be using the AW16G in some manner? I would like to make a decent project and I need help.
Jerry

Gary Cosden · Post by **Gary Cosden** » 22 Dec 2011 11:27 am

Jerry I have not exported anything in Cubase for a while but I suspect your issue mat have to do with the export settings. When I get home I will check mine and see if there is something that may help. You could do a you tube search and probably find several tutorials on just this very subject. I think that is where I originally found the settings that I have used in the past and I always got more than acceptable results.

Jack Stoner · Post by **Jack Stoner** » 22 Dec 2011 12:06 pm

Exporting as an MP3 may be the reason. Depending on the MP3 bitrate (compression) it can sound lousy. An MP3 is "something less than full fidelity". You should export as a .wav file for full fidelity.

If you export the song as an MP3, which is not full fidelity as noted, and you later want to make a standard audio CD that can be played on any Audio CD, the MP3 must be converted to wav and then the CD burned. Converting an MP3 to wav does not recover the lost fidelity, the wav file will be identical to the fidelity of the MP3 file. If you save it as a wav file, you have the full fidely and nothing is lost if you want to make an audio CD. If you want an MP3 for something such as an iPod player you can make a separate MP3 from the wav.

I don't know how it's done in Cubase LE. I use Sonar (X1) and am learning Pro Tools (MP9).

Jerry Roller · Post by **Jerry Roller** » 22 Dec 2011 12:40 pm

Jack, when I tried to export the mixed song I tried to go to WAV file and it would not let me and I am so ignorant of this stuff that I can't tell you what it said the reason was. I am going to start over and try to get it to a WAV file. I appreciate you guys helping. That is the kind of info I need. Stay tuned and I will update.

Thanks,
Jerry

Mikey Phillips · Post by **Mikey Phillips** » 23 Dec 2011 9:37 am

Jerry, I sent you an email, I might be able to help you.
Mikey

Randy Reeves · Post by **Randy Reeves** » 26 Dec 2011 4:48 pm

Jerry, if you are still experiencing problems feel free to e mail me. I use Cubase.

Jerry Roller · Post by **Jerry Roller** » 26 Dec 2011 5:23 pm

Randy, with the help from several guys I have gotten pretty far. I can download a backing track and play steel to it, export the mixed down track to itunes. I am still having some problems finding the file once it is transported. I can now even make it into an MP3 for emailing so I am pretty happy with my progress so far. I will practice what I have so far and ask when I hit a dead end. Thanks again for all the help. When I recorded at the studio downtown they sent many of their projects somewhere to have it subjected to an "exciter". The engineer told me that improved the recording. Does anyone know about this?
Jerry

Randy Reeves · Post by **Randy Reeves** » 26 Dec 2011 5:57 pm

post recording processing, aural exciter, is part of Mastering. the original tracks sound better because of the polishing.
that is the short explanation.
I have a software, Ozone4, that is a Mastering program.
the pre sets are easy to apply and most sound great.