Mix down and frozen tracks

djmission · Post by **djmission** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 8:26 am

Ok, I am confused. With Live 7.0.2 if I freeze my tracks before bouncing down does it result in lower quality bounces? I read that frozen tracks are always played through the warp engine?

What is the best practice for a final master bounce?

Thanks

freshdrumma · Post by **freshdrumma** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 2:07 pm

not sure if what you say it's right or not, anyway you can record the track that you like to freeze to another track with warp disabled, and that should better quality than.
ciao

blank · Post by **blank** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 10:23 pm

You can also flatten frozen track and disable warping.

Afaik, warped track at original tempo sounds the same anyway so I don't think you will loose a lot there.

-b

djmission · Post by **djmission** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 9:02 am

Hmmmm. Well, my process when I was using Logic was to Freeze all tracks and then do a bounce for the final master. This makes getting the same master each time fool proof. I'd like to complete a project in Live, Freeze it, and then bounce it. Can anyone state for certain this will yield the highest sound quality? I am going to produce a few thousand CDs and don't want to mess this up. This will be my first project made with Live. My last was all Logic. HELP!

spacebag · Post by **spacebag** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 2:35 pm

take a look into the Live 7 audio engine fact sheet
http://www.ableton.com/_common/download ... eet-en.pdf

page 4 + 5 "Freeze, Flatten"

That should answer the question.