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mattlange

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Re: Exported song sounds nothing like what plays in the program
« Reply #15 on: January 12, 2016, 02:23:48 am »
check that you're not clipping the shit out of your master bus.  while your daw is floating point and will allow headroom above 0dbfs, a rendered file will not.
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Re: Exported song sounds nothing like what plays in the program
« Reply #16 on: January 12, 2016, 03:00:32 pm »
Matt nailed it. I used to have this issue back in the day, and it went away after I stopped red-lining the master. You might still be able to clip on peaks (eg: drum transients) and achieve a pretty similar render to your real time playback, but I personally try not to do that either.
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Re: Exported song sounds nothing like what plays in the program
« Reply #17 on: January 12, 2016, 03:40:24 pm »
Also, if you're exporting 24-bit .wav's and you're going over 0db, it's going to clip. 32-bit will save the supposedly clipped information.

My best guess is that whatever playback software you are using (Windows Media Player, VLC, iTunes) is modifying the playback with their built-in 'enhancements.' Just turn those off.
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