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raal · 24th September 2005

last night we finished mixing audio for a grueling documentary film project that was more corrective surgery than mixing, but that's another story.

mixed the final stereo file back into PT (no bounce to disk), going through a fatso (inserted in the master fader) -- when i compared the recorded file to the input, i was surprised to find that the sound was very different - 2 dimensional, a little hyped in the high mids and the 'air' was gone.

question is, how can this be if the same DA converters were used to monitor the 'input' as the recorded track? the chain was: ITB mix to mstr fader>fatso on insert>DA>monitor system.

the difference was noteworthy. 192s (digi interface) are supposed to be a little hyped in the high mids, but the recorded stereo track and the input material are going through the same chain, so how can there be any difference at all?

thank you.

24th September 2005	#1
raal Lives for gear Joined: Dec 2004 Location: mexico Posts: 4,959 Thread Starter	HD 192 I/O sound... or dumb digital question last night we finished mixing audio for a grueling documentary film project that was more corrective surgery than mixing, but that's another story. mixed the final stereo file back into PT (no bounce to disk), going through a fatso (inserted in the master fader) -- when i compared the recorded file to the input, i was surprised to find that the sound was very different - 2 dimensional, a little hyped in the high mids and the 'air' was gone. question is, how can this be if the same DA converters were used to monitor the 'input' as the recorded track? the chain was: ITB mix to mstr fader>fatso on insert>DA>monitor system. the difference was noteworthy. 192s (digi interface) are supposed to be a little hyped in the high mids, but the recorded stereo track and the input material are going through the same chain, so how can there be any difference at all? thank you.