well,for one, the premier sound rendering engines suck. only use plugins. two, try to avoid gaining the audio up or down when resampling until you know what the resampling did to the wavebakeneko wrote:I'm sorry, I still don't understand how the sound card would affect the actual quality of the .WAV file being processed.
Even if the SBLive card (or any of the other cards -- none of which were Yamahas (built in Dell blech)) couldn't handle 48k .WAVs (whether or not it can I'm not sure) -- that doesn't explain why one .WAV file would play and sound just fine ... but as soon as I try to edit or export or manipulate the .WAV file, it starts sounding like crap.
Your logic is close. When you play it back out, it is indeed being processed by the sound card, which is the part he was talking about.In theory, I should be able to put the .WAV file on a computer with no sound card, use audio editing software to manipulate it (it's not the sound card that's processing the .WAV, it's the software, isn't it?), take it off that machine and put it on a sound-enabled machine and play back the .WAV.
if you're doing it in premier, don't. do it in something else first and see if that helps.For example -- for the "good" clip I linked above, all I did was take the "good" .WAV I have, put it into a sound editing program, chop out 10 seconds of it and save it under another filename. Since we're working with digital files, if all I do is crop out a bunch of bits, it should continue to play back the same bits as the good file, shouldn't it? Instead the clip /also/ starts to sound like ass.