bass drum distorting on cd player but not on mpc or computer

My bass drum sound was a bit too nice so i went into EDIT 1 and filtered it so there was a bit more of a thud in it and i thought it sounded better.
Then i sampled the whole song back into the MPC 4000. I burned a cd and when i listen back on my crappy cd player it sounds terrible. Its just reverberatin all over the place . sounds like a fart. On the computer it sounds ok and when i listen through headphones from my mpc i cant pick it up. im using samson resolvs and i just cant hear anything wrong when im playin the song before its put on the cd. Does anyone have an answer apart from leavin the bass drum the way it was. I just want to hear the sound as it really is.

you have to get used to your monitors man. you gotta learn them so you can mix on them better. just takes time to learn them. it may take lots of a/b comparisons, but i would suggest working on that.

Smoove03 wrote:you have to get used to your monitors man. you gotta learn them so you can mix on them better. just takes time to learn them. it may take lots of a/b comparisons, but i would suggest working on that.

thats really good advice smoove .. i would also suggest not to mix
down at a loud volume levels .. and also keep track of every setting
very carefully .. i have a mixdown log book .. where i write down
the track name along with every effect i used and what the effect was
set at .. this also helps in consistency between tracks.

cool man. sounds like that takes some discipline to keep up with that book. not bad though...

ok thats fair enough i. i just gotta keep at it. its disheartening when you think somethin sounds decent and it just comes out as a squelch but thats the way it is. also im tryin to get used to recordin straight into the mpc from the mpc. it takes a while and theres lots of futherin about so it doesnt seem conjusive to doing lots of 'takes' to check progress but maybe it would be the same with any piece of equipment when your gettin used to it.

keep a small boombox or walkman on hand so you can do your a/b comparisons with them. may take a lot of burning and wasting blank cd's but its worth it to learn your monitors!

Smoove03 wrote:keep a small boombox or walkman on hand so you can do your a/b comparisons with them. may take a lot of burning and wasting blank cd's but its worth it to learn your monitors!

lmao i do that .. i buy those 100 blank cd spindels from staples
they only cost 25.00 dollars .. but well worth it ... i have cds all over with
just kr@p mixdowns on em .. but yes it does help to learn your monitors
i use my car stereo for my comparisons or my daughters little
book shelf system ..
also remeber bass comes from power .. so dont try to add to much into the mix .. bass frequencies are like preperation-h , a litle dab will do ya

yeah it takes a little to keep the mixdown log smoove .. but once you use it
and find a way to work with it in your own workflow..it is in invaluable tool
i learned that from a guy who works as a recording engineer at a local
studio.

sinister_keys wrote:

Smoove03 wrote:keep a small boombox or walkman on hand so you can do your a/b comparisons with them. may take a lot of burning and wasting blank cd's but its worth it to learn your monitors!

lmao i do that .. i buy those 100 blank cd spindels from staples
they only cost 25.00 dollars .. but well worth it ... i have cds all over with
just kr@p mixdowns on em .. but yes it does help to learn your monitors
i use my car stereo for my comparisons or my daughters little
book shelf system ..
also remeber bass comes from power .. so dont try to add to much into the mix .. bass frequencies are like preperation-h , a litle dab will do ya

yeah it takes a little to keep the mixdown log smoove .. but once you use it
and find a way to work with it in your own workflow..it is in invaluable tool
i learned that from a guy who works as a recording engineer at a local
studio.

yea i'd have to train myself to keep up with a log book if i started one. i just save all settings in the mixer and hope for the best lol. just pull the mix back up when i need to work on it. but yea those 100 pack cdr's are the way to go. you dont have to worry about running out of cd's for a while and you can use the spindle to store your own cd's haha so i think its worth the $25 in the long run.

hey but back to the book thing, you mark down all levels effects and everything? are these mixer settings or settings in the mpc?

could just buy a cd-rw compatible boombox/discman so you can save some money..............

i rock a book as well. i write out the track with the part number and the sample. as follows

track part sample
1 12 drums - kick
2 7 synth
3 5 chop - see below


etc.

then at the bottom of the page i'll write down all sample info.


i usually have some space for other related notes, such as resequencing for an emcee, etc.

it's clarified a lot for me and actually saves me time in the long run, being more organized. i also tend to forget what records i'm using when i'm all caught up in the moment making the beat so it's good for me to write it all down.

to each his own though.