[PlanetCCRMA] Ardour, mastering, bouncing and bias

[Jan Depner]

On Sun, 2006-10-15 at 14:38 -0400, Roy Vestal wrote:
> I have recorded several songs for a demo and need to bounce them to CD. 
> I'm used to bouncing in ProTools. I tried this and have some questions 
> about the results.
> 
> My questions:
> 1) I chose "bounce" but nothing appeared to work. I chose "File ->Export 
> to File -> wav" and was able to take a test song to a wav. Is the 
> "bounce" feature broken or am I doing something wrong?
> 

    I believe bouncing has a different connotation here.  Export is how
you get to disk.


> 2) When creating the TOC for each file from "File->Export to File" 
> menus, do I need to create a TOC for each wav, in it's own dir, or do I 
> need to make a new folder and copy all the wav and TOCs to write them to 
> CD? When burning to CD, what is the way to upload the redbook info to 
> the CDDB's on the net?
> 
> 3) Last question (at least in this email! :)  ) When I exported a 
> recording to a wav file, the bias changed and the wav was 1(one) whole 
> step lower than the key it was recorded in. I'm not sure if I did 
> something to cause this, or if I *didn't* do the right thing. Is there 
> any documentation on bouncing CD's and using Ardour to create redbook cd's?
> 

    You probably recorded at 48KHz and then didn't change it to 44.1KHz
on export.


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