Volume Levelling

[BIG t]

I Have a Zoom MRS-4 that I connect up to my laptop via an external soundblaster soundcard.

Lately when I've been mixing down to the PC (mp3) I've noticed particularly when acoustic intro and the guitars/drums come in the volume drops or levels off. It then gradually creeps back up to normal.

Any ideas why it's doing this? When I play it back throught the 4-track it's fine! [img]images/smilies/dunno.gif[/img]

Tis frustrating! [img]images/smilies/mad1.gif[/img]

Cheers

[Mondy]

It could just be the fact that you are using a Laptop. I kept getting problems with Latency and when I queried it, people told me that Laptops were notorious for it.

Could be that they're notorious for this as well ?

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[3fingers]

Sounds like you have activated some sort of compression or dynamics filter...I am assuming of course that it at one time worked correctly...I agree with Mondy above...laptops have been notoriously poor performers for music and video editing....even with the burliest of hardware available in the past. Check your software in my opinion..uninstall...re-install your mp3 encoder. Good Luck!

[BIG t]

Cheers

Yep, it was fine for the first lot of recordings...has happened recently when using some backing tracks! I'll have a look at check boxes and stuff....even re-install!

Enjoy

[Mr Crumb]

If you are plugging into the soundblaster's microphone input on the soundblaster instead of the line in, you can have this problem as many mic inputs have limiting built in. My slaptop's mic input has this problem.