1st rip to MP3 - nothing but hiss/static

[kadiir]

Hello:

I'm doing my first rip w/ CD Ripper. I have DBC Reference R13 and I updated LAME to 3.98.

I'm using the v2 option.

Ripping with EAC (latest version) & LAME 3.98 sounds perfect.

Ripping with CD Ripper is is a "staticy hiss" kind of sound. Full volume (playing in Winamp shows the vertical bars maxing out in the higher frequencies (rightmost 75% of the bars).

I tried to make my CD Ripper settings as close to EAC as I could figure out, but maybe I set something wrong.

Help!

[Spoon]

Re: 1st rip to MP3 - nothing but hiss/static

Rip to wave as a test, does that have the noise?

[LtData]

Re: 1st rip to MP3 - nothing but hiss/static

Using any DSP effects?

Also, what do you mean by "updated LAME to 3.98"? dMC r13 already comes with LAME built-in.

[kadiir]

Re: 1st rip to MP3 - nothing but hiss/static

I also forgot to mention that AccurateRip reported "accurate" and confidence of 13 for tracks 1-11 and 12 for track 12.

Also, I have the encoding set for "Slow (High Quality)."

Under options, I have it set for Secure (Ultra) and no C2 and communication is set for "SCSI Pass Through (STP)" which I think is the default. And, ripping at 4x, read into lead-in/lead-out is unchecked and AccurateRip is on and put the +30 offset for my PX-760A.

Rip to wave as a test, does that have the noise?

Wave rips & plays fine.

Using any DSP effects?

No - the "box" is completely empty.

Also, what do you mean by "updated LAME to 3.98"? dMC r13 already comes with LAME built-in.

IIRC, dMC R13 comes with a version of 3.97. 3.98 came out a few weeks ago and is the currently recommended version by HydrogenAudio.org.

I copied over lame_enc.dll & lame.exe into the Compression\Lame and encoder\mp3 (Lame) directories, respectively.

[Spoon]

Re: 1st rip to MP3 - nothing but hiss/static

You need R13.1 (from the beta section), we had to change the code to accept 3.98

[LtData]

Re: 1st rip to MP3 - nothing but hiss/static

That's right, I was getting mixed up. dMC r13.1 (currently in beta) uses LAME 3.98. Also, they apparently changed some of the input code (stdin) in LAME in 3.98, so you need to use r13.1 to use LAME 3.98.

[kadiir]

Re: 1st rip to MP3 - nothing but hiss/static

Upgrading to the beta fixed it. Thanks everyone!