[stringbean01]

i'm mixing an album and am running into the strangest thing... ive never noticed this with any other music before. when i bounce my masters straight from logic to WAV, all transients are clean and quite beautiful sounding. but anytime i encode to MP3 (whether it be straight out of logic on the "highest" quality VBR 256, or from itunes) a lot of transients distort in playback.

i'm mastering with voxengo elephant as the final plugin in the chain. mix reads under 0db without question in logic and my loudness/small dynamic range isnt earth shattering... what is happening? what is the root of this problem! the mix is great and the EQ curve is quite standard and comparable to much of todays music. WAV sounds awesome. MP3s suck on really high quality settings and a "reputable" encoding algorithm