(idm) Producing Question...

From alalan
Sent Sat, Feb 28th 1998, 05:37

Hey there...this question is mainly for those of you who have 
composed music on computer(from samples) and have had studio 
experience with mixing onto CD...
I've recently been writing sample based songs in a program called 
SoundForge, which is a powerful wav editor...The songs(I hope) are 
good enough for release if i send them out to the right people, but i 
have a problem. No matter what i do, there's too much hiss and not 
enough volume. The samples are all in CD quality(44,000), but i have 
to set the volume low on soundforge so that it doesn't max out and 
start to distort...
My question is: is it possible if to fix this at the end before it 
goes on vinyl/CD, or am i screwed from the start, and shouldn't even 
bother? I just don't want to spend hours and find out that they're 
not worthy of release due to bad quality...thanks for any input!!
       Ali Lalani
          "When injustice becomes law...
           Resistance becomes duty."
                         Some montreal protesters