Where's the OP, Ed Bulmer? Ed, you never responded if you tried some simple EQ adjustments before rendering to .mp3.

Here's one of the things I suspect could be happening:

The compress to .mp3 that you refer to may have a normalization aspect to it, which can highlight low frequency mud if you are auditioning it against a non-normalized recording like in BIAB or PTPA or RB.

For spoken word, you really have no need of any content below 150-200 Hz.

Did you first try to apply a high pass filter and adjust the cutoff frequency to taste, THEN compress to .mp3 (which if you are selling a CD, you don't want to compress at all - mp3 is not the format for selling a CD.)?

I didn't see that question get asked by any of the previous respondents. Why are you compressing to .mp3 when you are selling a comedy CD? You should be rendering to 16 bit 44100 Hz .wav files.

-Scott

Edit - now I get it, this thread is ages old and resurfaced so someone could sell mastering. Oops!

Last edited by rockstar_not; 10/09/13 07:24 AM.
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