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did i loose audio quality.... IF,
1)i "export" it as .wav? or its better copy the mix file from that particuar song folder.

2)burn any file as audio/cdda than make .wav form that cd.

3)if i burn the file as data file(wav) than copy the file from cd?

** i'm using nero burner. is that ok? what is the best burner?
*** nero has a option "normalize audio"... what does it do? do we need that after mastering?
thanks

1. What I learned here on planetz is that you get a better result not using the Cubase or Logic 'Audio Export' function.
One of the reasons was that realtime recording is more accurat compared to the faster export way, correct me if I'm wrong, I mostly remember just the conclusions
2. no, or I'll shoot myself
3. dito

** dunno, don't use it on mac, but there should be an older thread about it if I remember well.
*** normalising audio is a process which pushes the audio to the max volume (or -0.3 instead of 0db), all without changing anything to the mix.
So if you have a track with just one single 0db peak of one msec., normalising will do nothing at all!

You're right, it's a good thing to apply it after all mastering has done, but mostly I know already before what's my loudest peak in the song, namely -0,3 db, that's the limiter output level at the end of the mastering chain
BTW. normalising is also a good thing with not so loud samples that you gonne use in a song.
You won't here the difference so fast, working in 24bit, but for further processing of the sample higher volume levels always are better.



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Thanks but soon i'll come up with more question.

** nero is good, use it. my personal preference is Plextor, for budget LG.
*** i prefer Wavelab or Audition for normalize in 32 bit, converting to 16 bit as the very last step.