Heya, I am having issues with the sound quality of the .mp4 in my own song cover videos. The quality seems to really worsen once I render the video with DaVinci Resolve, and it doesn't get better when I upload it (view YouTube video "Dreams ...").
For the video down below I recorded my voice and the piano as one stereo track simultaneously. My exact procedure was as follows:
1. Record stereo audio with cakewalk
2. Duplicate audio track and split it into two mono tracks.
3. Apply reverb (little too much here, I admit) and slight gain correction
4. Render to two .wmv (view attachment: dreamsvoice.mp3 and dreamspiano.mp3)
5. Increase volume til the point it does not clip (red), add compressor for high passages
6. Render to mp4, with AAC codec, 192 Kb/s, 16 Bit Depth, Stereo
I also was having issues with splitting up my stereo track to two monos in Cakewalk (never done it before), so I had to erase the other track's remains in Davinci.
The mp3 I rendered in Davinci, for comparing it to the mp4, sounds just fine to me (view attachment: "dreams video audio only.mp3"), but also some of the louder parts start to sound odd. I too had a similar kind of problem with solo piano recordings where I just could not get it loud and clear at the same time.
My microphon is the Audio Technica P48, the piano the Yamaha P-45.
This is really bugging me. Is my recording quality faulty? Does it happen because of the failed stereo to mono conversion or is there a render issue?
Dreamspiano 1.mp3
Dreamsvoice 1.mp3
Dreams video audio only.mp3