Getting It On Cd Options

[backshed]

I'm mastering with DP3 and waves gold. I'm monitoring with tannoy 6.5's, and my loudspeakers are Bose 301's. I'm burning with Maxell cd's.

I've got the project sounding great (to my ears), I've dithered and got it down to 16 bit, and I'm using 'Toast' to burn to cd. The problem is that the cd comes out sounding very flat...not at all what I've got happening in the monitors. I've done a test where I mastered a song, burned it on cd, and played it back using the same speakers, and it's no where near the same. Can any one explain that?

I just wondered if anyone could offer a solution for this problem. Should I avoid using the G4 to burn? Is Toast really just a breakfast snack after all?

[jklimeck]

There is absoutely no reason at all that your sequence that is playing in DP3 should not sound exactly the same (imperceptible at least) as on the CD.

Are you sure you are bouncing all effects, compressors, reverbs, L1 Maximizer to Disk. It sounds like you are not. So you will wind up with a un-processed, flat, track

Once you are sure this is done and it is soundbyte, export that soundbite as an AIFF (or SD2) but I prefer AIFF and drag it to Toast or iTunes, I use iTunes to burn CD's, custom playlists, don't know why people pay for Toast when you have the great and free iTunes.

My guess is if you are mastering (I would be using the Waves L1 Maximizer) on my master outputs, make sure this is on and hot, either Final Master or Heavier Limiting pre-set.

The L1 is the thing, hopefully you are using it, if the track is "banging" in the DP3 sequence then it will on the CD, if the track is wek in the DP3 sequence it wil be on the CD.