M-Box Mini and 16Bit Audio - Problem

[gnosticbeast]

Hi All,

I produce music at 24bit with 192 sample rate. I dither down to 44.1
and 16bit. The subsequent WAV files sound perfectly fine in Pro Tools LE
or something like Sonar Producer (or when I burn to a CD and play back
in a car stereo).

When when I listen to the song using Media Player or some other audio
player, there is a problem with the panning- whatever is panned to the
right decreases in volume instead of moving in stereo. Does that make
sense? Anyway I am using an M-Box mini to playback my 16bit files. If I
plug the speakers into my SB Live and use that as the output device,
everything is fine.

I assume that the M-Box is having trouble playing the 16bit file due to
the panning. However if I listen to any commercial CD using M-Box- I
don't notice the problem. Can anyone help?

Thanks.

Paul



PS- Cool Edit Pro fails to recognize the panning even in the 24bit 192 version- the volume decreases on the right side when it should pan to the right! But again, when I burn to CD or playback with Sound Blaster Live everything sounds FINE!! HELP!

[trakbytes]

Try posting in the LE forum. This forum is for Post and Surround. However, to address your problem, are you sure you are burning stereo files? Sounds like you may be burning left channel only to dual mono if right channel pans are disappearing.

[gnosticbeast]

I will try that forum also, but I am actually producing the songs with Sonar 4 as I just recently got the M-Box and Pro Tools.

In Sonar, I bounce my entire mix to one stereo track, add EQ and Compression, then Export Entire Mix to a 24bit/192 Stereo WAV file. Then I take this, mix down to 16bit/44.1 with Cool Edit Pro, and burn to an Audio CD. This process seems to work, but when I want to preview the 24 bit file OR the 16 bit version in a standard Windows based audio player, that's when I encounter the problem. I'm dumbfounded.

Paul