Question

Hi, I own S1 4 Artist, and when I listen to my mix on it it sounds good, there's a very strong bassline and everything sounds ok, then, after exporting, the track sounds airy and weak and my bassline completely disappears!

I've read other topics and tried everything they suggested, turning off dithering, exporting in real time, all formats, resolutions and bit rates you can think of, all my instruments both as instrument tracks and audio tracks, played it in several different players, and all for nothing. Quality remains bad and my bassline is still missing...

I'm really frustrated, can someone please help?

Answer 1

Anyone have ideas???  I am having the exact same problem.  I have spent hours exporting files (both WAV and MP3) at every quality, bit-rate, resolution possible, with/without dithering, real-time/non-real-time, with plugins and without, and the problem still exists.  Here is what I have discovered:  When any of those 100s of mixdown files are played back in Studio One they sound PERFECT ... just like they are supposed to.  It's when those files (any of them) are played back on "consumer" players (Windows Media Player, Audacity, VLC, etc.) that they sound like ****.  It seems (my hypothesis) that the mixdown files being created can be read by Studio One just fine but the consumer playback apps are having problems.  And I should add, to eliminate questions about hardware, I have disabled my onboard sound in the BIOS and the only sound device I have is a PreSonus Studio24c and my speakers are KRK Rocket 5s.  I am using Windows 10.

This seems to be a problem that has been raised in numerous online forums for the past few years - does anyone have thoughts on how to remedy this issue?

Thanks in advance!