Topic: Offline bouncing query

Viewing 8 replies - 1 through 8 (of 8 total)

Replied July 5, 2012 at 13:35 #1959329

jbraner
Participant

If there isn’t a lot of headroom, then the files must be at a pretty high volume.

When you import the files into your DAW, what do they look like? Do they look like they’re a decent volume? or low? You can play with the volumes in your DAW, to get them however you want. There really isn’t any “noise” to worry about, as there isn’t noise in the files – you’ve just rendered digital files – you haven’t recorded them with a microphone. 😉

If the WAV files that you import look really low – then just play with the settings when you bounce – and turn up the volume. If you turn it too high, Superior will back off and render them at a lower volume, so there is no clipping.

John Braner
http://johnbraner.bandcamp.com
http://www.soundclick.com/johnbraner
and all the major streaming/download sites.
-------------------------------------------------
Reaper 7 x64 (latest version), Windows 11 Pro 64 bit, AMD Ryzen 3950x, 32GB RAM, MSI MAG X570 Tomahawk Wifi mobo (not using wifi though), NVIDIA GEForce GT710 video card, MOTU Ultralite AVB audio interface

Replied July 5, 2012 at 14:03 #1959330

Megamix
Participant

Hi, thanks for the reply.

Sorry, when I say headroom I mean the faders in my DAW automatically set to 0db and the audio is ok-ish but not as hot as I would like. I can’t push the faders up any more as this will be going above 0, which isn’t ideal.

Looking at the waveforms on the audio files in the DAW they seem quite low. By the way, I’m bouncing pre-mixer in SD. I’ve tried increasing the pre-mixer level up a bit but this doesn’t seem to make any difference as when SD renders the files afterwards they end up the same as if I had just left the level to its default setting.

Cheers.

Replied July 6, 2012 at 01:07 #1959340

Juicy
Participant

In your daw, are your meters pre or post fader ?

You can also setup multi track bouncing making audio of SD in your daw and not in SD’s mixer .

Replied July 6, 2012 at 09:49 #1959344

Ian Scott
Participant

Hey there,

Just wondering if you are listening to a combined preset and then bouncing offline not through the internal mixer?

Replied July 6, 2012 at 11:51 #1959345

Megamix
Participant

Hi Juicy, the meters in my daw are just in the default setting, I’m not sure if they’re pre or post I’m afraid. Yes, I’m thinking there might be a way to record a stereo mix of SD through my daw’s mixer as that’s how I’m monitoring SD and everything sounds good. I suppose if I have enough ram and cpu resource I could just leave it running as midi until I’m ready to mix.

Hi Stuntnut, I’m not using any presets in SD, just using the default sounds and bleeds etc, bouncing offiline pre-SD mixer and then importing the files into my daw.

As I say, I think I’ll investigate bouncing to a stereo mix within my daw, that way I can add eq and comp etc in the daw and make it sound nice before a final stereo mix.

Thanks all for taking the time to reply.

Cheers.

Replied July 6, 2012 at 12:15 #1959346

Juicy
Participant

Yes, It will free up cpu/ram too.
Re post/pre fadering.
Generally Daws are post fader for simplicity but sometimes (if they can switch like logic)its nice to confirm levels by checking pre fader
so your fader has nothing to do with what you see on your meter.
Naturally just looking at the waveform is a good way to check too.

Replied July 6, 2012 at 13:42 #1959348

jbraner
Participant

If you bounce through your DAW, you have to load all the bleeds in RAM – in Superior.

If you bounce through Superior, you’ll get all bleeds etc, even if you only load a few of them in the actual kit in Superior.

I’m not at my music computer – but I’d say bounce through Superior rather than your DAW (as long as you don’t need EFX in your bounce) and just push the fader up. Also make sure the “volume” in Superior is up at adecent level. You’re not going to get distortion because Superior won’t let you set the volume too high (if it’s too high, the bounce backs off and rebounces at a lower level). Otherwise feel free to turn up the volumes in your DAW. You won’t raise the noise floor because the noise isn’t there 😉 Also, it doesn’t matter if you go above 0db on your DAW mixer – you’re just raising the volume of a (clean) WAV file that’s too low.

Play around with your bounce settings until you get a nice healthy WAV out of Superior – then you’ll know how to set it for all the rest of your mixes 😉

John Braner
http://johnbraner.bandcamp.com
http://www.soundclick.com/johnbraner
and all the major streaming/download sites.
-------------------------------------------------
Reaper 7 x64 (latest version), Windows 11 Pro 64 bit, AMD Ryzen 3950x, 32GB RAM, MSI MAG X570 Tomahawk Wifi mobo (not using wifi though), NVIDIA GEForce GT710 video card, MOTU Ultralite AVB audio interface

Replied June 5, 2017 at 10:30 #1995107

Sean Tatalovich
Participant

If you offline bounce I hear back something quite different. Levels are different. I don’t hear effects on individual tracks.

I choose all bleed and bounce in SD2. After import tracks are very loud (I can send to a buss and lower volume) but they sound like they are missing something.
Author

Replies

Viewing 8 replies - 1 through 8 (of 8 total)

You must be logged in to reply to this topic.

Please log in to read and reply to this topic.

Offline bouncing query

Studio Corner

Viewing 8 replies - 1 through 8 (of 8 total)