Having an issue when I try bouncing tracks to final mix

Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 3:54 pm

I am a noob, but I have a decent amount of experience with recording just not with pro-tools. I have a delta 1010LT with a 16 track mixer. anyways, whenever I get the tracks all set to make a final mix and bounce the tracks over, no matter what format I bounce it to, the distorted guitars sound flangery, drums and bass go to shit, etc. It is a definite difference from how my tracks sounds before i try bouncing them. For the life of me, I can't figure out what the hell is the issue. am i dealing with a soundcard issue? mixer set up? I feel like it is just something simple, but if anyone could point me in the right direction i would appreciate it.

Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 4:22 pm

Weird, I have never had that problem. It always sounds just like it does when I hit play. I thought that is supposed to be one of the benefits of the real time bounce. Although from your description it sounds like a small delay. Try turning off hardware monitoring on your Delta 1010LT mixer.

If that doesn't work make sure you have the latest user update for Pro Tools M-Powered, and sound drivers from M-audio.

Try asking at the Digidesign Users Conference.

Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 6:56 pm

Any tracks being processed externally via the 1010?

Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 10:46 am

nope. all i have is mic to the mixer, then mixer to soundcard on my pc. everything i am using is on the computer. no external hardware being used.

there is just a constant flange going on.. could it be something with the sampling rate?

Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 11:20 am

holy effin crap, i just figured it out.

Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 11:23 am

Try muting all aux buses in your project. There could be latency on one of the plugin on the aux bus causing the problem.

What are your settings on your 1010 mixer on the patch assignment page, and the sample rate page?

Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 11:26 am

steve0502 wrote:

holy effin crap, i just figured it out.

Loose nut on the keyboard?

Do share...

Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 2:37 pm

man this may sound just freaking stupid, but i wasn't using dither on the master fading track so i think it was a matter of getting 24 bit crossed with 16 bit. i used to dither to make both 16 bit and that fixed. sorta easy, but it took me a while to figure that out. youtube. heh.

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