FLAC to MP3 Bass Problems

[LtData]

Re: FLAC to MP3 Bass Problems

The reason I suggested blade was to see if it was a setting your player had for mp3 files, or the LAME encoder itself.
I assume you have also tried a different program to play your mp3s?

[NoOne]

Re: FLAC to MP3 Bass Problems

Spoon, I tried what you said in Nero's WaveEditor, you can see the volume has increased in the file.

LtData, as I mentioned in a previous post, I tried different programs with where they all have their own copy of LAME.

I have also tried to encode other FLAC files to MP3 using Music Converter and they sound fine. It just seems to be these files.

[NoOne]

Re: FLAC to MP3 Bass Problems

Anybody have a clue as to what is happening here? I really like this album and I would like to be able to listen to it on my MP3 player as well haha. Thanks for all your help so far.

[ChristinaS]

Re: FLAC to MP3 Bass Problems

Well, what I would do is play the flac files and record them to standard PCM uncompressed wave, 16-bit, 44.1KHz, 2-channel stereo with dMC Auxiliary Input as they are being played. Then convert the wav to mp3.

I wonder if it's possible the flac files are some kind of variable bit-rate and/or frequency, maybe yet another form of DRM, making it hard to simply convert.

[xoas]

Re: FLAC to MP3 Bass Problems

I wonder if the issue might be related to the characteristics of the audio (in interaction with the sound-shaping characteristics of mp3 technology).

Perhaps if you could compare the frequency characteristics of your two previous wave files (one flac to wav, the second Flac to mp3 to wav) you could determine whether there are particular frequencies being overemphasized or whether this is some overall boost at all frequencies.

Armed with this information you could use dMC's EQ DSP to address output at specific frequencies or you could reduce EQ boost or use volume quiten to reduce output across all frequencies.

This being said, I would try Christina's suggestion first. It's simpler although it probably would not address the problem I suggested. But my theory of this problem is hypothetical at this point anyway.

What music is it that is giving this problem?

Best wishes,
Bill