Export is not the same sound as playback
Hi guys, long time Reaper user here. I am mixing a project right now and I happened to notice that one particular part of the song sounds DIFFERENT after I export it than when I am in Reaper doing playback. It's very obvious because the sound difference is like a pause in the vocals between words. In playback from Reaper, the words are nice and connected. On export, it sounds like the vocalist ended the first word and took a breath before the second.
I first noticed it when I exported as mp3, so I tried wav. This made no difference. I then tried exporting only a few seconds right where the audio gets exported differently. Now it sounds fine, just like Reaper playback. I expanded that Time Selection to 17 seconds witht he offending area in the middle, exported, and again everything sounds fine. Then I Time Select the whole song, and now the change is apparent again in the exported file. This was all in Reaper 4.32, so I tried updating to 4.71, but it did not change the issue. I tried Offline Render as well as Online, and neither one sound the same as Reaper playback when I export the entire song.
Any ideas? I have tried bypassing FX on my Master Buss, and this does not make a difference either.
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