Hello guys,

Hope you've had wonderful holidays.

My current mix consists of a piano track, which is perfectly clear almost everywhere that I've tested
but on iphone the piano distorts like crazy, I've done many things like worked with EQ mostly, compressors everything ... nothing yet have fixed it and it drives me nuts. in some parts the piano plays solo with no other frequencies crashing in to it but that even distorts too! wtf!! please heelp

 

Are you exporting it too loud and do you have a limiter on it so it won't slip

 

I have a limiter on the master, it doesn't clip at all ... it sounds alright everywhere ... 2 days busy working on it and no result

 

Without more info four possibilities to check.

1:Phone is fucked
2: Track is clipped
3: Unchecked Resonance
4: Sub Bass frequencies

Anyone else?

 

Have to checked the Wave Form to Look at it is it Squashed is like a soled Block Wave Form is there any Dynamic left in it

 

The iPhone is mono. Sometimes this can mess up things. However, mixing for mobile speakers is a must. Have you tried to export and test the solo'd wet piano track?

 

Is there a good impedance match between your iPhone and your listening device?

 

Try another iPhone.

 

are you using the built in speakers? they suck on iphone and they are mono which does screw things up

 

1: other music has no problem on the phone, so that seem fine.
2: not clipped
3: clear
4. highpass filter applied

I don't know about this one, but the piano track is very lightly touched, light compression applied. No clip or anything, sounds sweet and nice.

I check my mixes with mono, it's clear. with the iphone it's not. Even laptop speaker works nie. I'll try the piano solo this time will let u know.

I'm checking with iphone's built in speaker bro

 

checked, same result.

Yes, I am. but since have checked many tracks and none of them have this problem!!!!

 

Guys,

I see there is something going on in my output master. Right now nothing is playing but the output meter is green
A little signal is being sent to it but it's from none of the tracks!? Could it be the problem? I can't seem to find where it is coming from and I can't really hear anything. never seen this before.

 

That's a possibility. Are you able to see a graphic representation of the frequency of the unwanted signal?

 

Hey, you are using Fl studio yes? Try taking the piano score midi into a new project AFTER restarting Fl studio.

If it still distorts , it could be the the quality you exported the file as.

 

are you using any saturation plugs? they tend to send a small amount of signal even when nothingg is palying through them adn they have a tendency to distort when pushed hard

 

Here is the image below.
It's really a broadband "noise" ?! what is that? Is ableton messing with me?
btw, Regarding the piano track, I tried moving up the attack on piano's compressor and distortion got much better but the attack is not my taste to the mix to leave it that way.

Using Ableton bro

 

Hey,

Yes I do. but I had this situation is the past so I disabled the plugins but nothing is changed, the signal is still there.

 

Big spike on the bottom end of that plot. Try putting your stereo mixdown track through a meter and see if your hp filter has done anything.

 

Gosh! That's real nasty. As a temporary measure, render nothing but the broadband noise to an audio clip in uncompressed format. Import that new audio clip into your project and flip its phase. Not a perfect solution. The inverted noise track will only partially cancel out the onboard noise problem.

 

Have you turned off each track individually to see when the quiet noise disappears? That's usually what I do in Ableton if there is low-level noise somewhere, and watch with an analyzer from an eq 8 on the master channel. Also, are you using any waves plugins? They each have that "analog" knob, which basically adds low-level noise to its chain. A bunch of waves plugs with this turned on makes a hell of a build up in the master channel, so if you are, try turning them all off! I always thought it was odd that they default to on, but should be used sparingly to keep a clean chain. Hope that helps a little.