mastered tracks imported from cd are WAY hot!

[tioshi]

Originally Posted by jasonthurley

You say "Visual" clipping... do you mean the waveform in the track or the meters?

You can adjust the waveform display so you can "see" all the peaks in the wav file

http://www.ehow.com/video_4976187_pr...rack-view.html

A lot of people use Meter Plugins to see true dB instead of using the meters on the software

Thanks for the suggestions. Ill definitely check out the meters plugin. I meant meter clipping

[tioshi]

Originally Posted by shotgunndunn

Check out puremix.net. Fab goes into great detail in a video about the lack of a metering standard across different systems and such. Sadly, I cannot remember if this was a free video or a paid video. Great info on that site.

Thanks. That's good to know!!

[Southsidemusic]

Originally Posted by shotgunndunn

Ha!!! Noice!!! LOL!!!

+1 +1 +1

Awesome comment hahahahaha
That CD sounds really bad imho

// C

[CME]

Originally Posted by elicious

intersample clipping
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And this is the correct answer. At least in my understanding.

[WombatStudio.Org]

Are you overlooking a limiter on your master bus?

I mix into a limiter on my master bus and when bringing in reference tracks they'd get "double mastered" and sound horrible.

I played with my routing so the limiter was no longer on my master bus but on a previous mix bus that went out to the master for my mix and the reference tracks go straight out the master bypassing the limiter.

All is now well.

[digidesigner]

Originally Posted by tioshi

Strangely enough I've never had to do this before but...When I try to import a couple of stereo tracks off of a mastered commercial CD (wav files) the tracks are way too hot. I know the tracks are good when played on other/thru other sources but protools HD10 is seeing them and playing them back distorted. I've tried converting them to 24 bit, just bringing them in at 16 bit...no difference. What basic critical step might I be overlooking? Thanks

Pro Tools HD-1 accel ver. 10.2
Mac pro quad core - Lion
Lynx Aurora 16

What sampling rate are you importing into? SRC does create some nasty overs, CD's can only be properly imported into 44.1 sessions. If you need to have audio from CD into session of different SR, create a 44.1 session first, import there and lower the gain say 10db and import that lower level file into your session.

For A/B'ing I have found a better way of running my DAW and CD Player (mac optical out) into the *volume knob* device both digital, so comparison is easy and no SR issues will happen as the *volume knob* device follows the clock as needed.