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02-24-2011, 12:53 PM
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Reaper and Amplitube - Muffled distortion?
Hi everyone.
I've had this issue for a while now and have been using Cubase to get around it when necessary but I much prefer using Reaper so I'd love to get it sorted.
Using Amplitube 3 inside Reaper as a VST plugin I notice, (especially on distortion) that the sound is muffled and loses it's shine.
However, if I use the standalone Amplitube or use the same VST inside Cubase it is much brighter and more how I expect it to sound.
I never used to have this problem with Reaper but after a format and re-install this problem came up and I can't see a solution.
There is nothing else on the tracks apart from Amplitube itself and all the levels are similar.
I have attached samples so you can hear what I'm on about.
Not a nice distortion by any means but it makes it easy to hear the difference.
Both of these are using the exact same presets inside Amplitube too.
Any help appreciated.
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02-24-2011, 09:09 PM
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Sounds kind of odd. Are you using your quality at hi?
Last edited by ObiK; 02-24-2011 at 09:52 PM.
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02-25-2011, 02:05 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ObiK
Sounds kind of odd. Are you using your quality at hi?
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You mean my mixdown/render quality or a setting inside Amplitube/Reaper itself?
Thanks for the reply ObiK
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02-25-2011, 08:06 PM
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If audio is working in reaper at all with other plug ins then lets focus on just AmpliTube. There should be a Quality button with three options. Make sure it is on Highest quality setting. And no problem. Thats why I'm here with IK Multimedia. Just here to help out!
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02-28-2011, 02:11 AM
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Solved...
Cheers ObiK,
I sorted it out last night actually.
Bit of a brute force and not a clue what actual setting caused it but dumping the Reaper preferences .ini sorted it out, so it was definitely a setting within Reaper itself and not the Amplitube plugin.
Hopefully it won't re-occur.
Help appreciated nonetheless.
Cheers
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02-28-2011, 02:24 AM
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footnote... yes there was quite a bad difference in your two samples... however in just looking at the properties for the two mp3 files, I can see strange differences... just using the windows file properties\audio properties
you can see a little diff even at the file sizes... but ummm the reaper mp3 says it's at 258kbs by lame and cubase says its 256 kbs by [FH?](guess)... is that fraunhoffer codec?
anyway... personally like to compare wav files, not compressed files...
so out of curiosity, what settings were wrong in reaper?
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02-28-2011, 04:32 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Madaxe
Cheers ObiK,
I sorted it out last night actually.
Bit of a brute force and not a clue what actual setting caused it but dumping the Reaper preferences .ini sorted it out, so it was definitely a setting within Reaper itself and not the Amplitube plugin.
Hopefully it won't re-occur.
Help appreciated nonetheless.
Cheers
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Glad you got it figured out. If you need anything else let me know.
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10-16-2014, 07:46 AM
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I know this thread is long dead, but I am having this exact problem and it doesn't look like any actual solution was posted. I would appreciate any guidance. Thanks
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10-17-2014, 12:28 AM
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Did you check if the Quality button was on the highest setting as recommended by Obik.
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10-17-2014, 12:50 AM
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The OP deleted an ini file, I presume reaper.ini -rename it to something like reaper.ini.old and see if it sorts the issue out.
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10-17-2014, 11:03 AM
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Thanks for the responses. Yes to the quality setting. I can't find the reaper.ini file. I'm using Mac OS X 10.9.5 by the way.
For now, turning the input all the way up in Amplitube does the trick pretty well.
Last edited by strick13; 10-17-2014 at 10:15 PM.
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