Audio Mixdown: Doesnt sound as good as realtime?

[Aurasphere]

Hi @Nico5

@Nico5

One classic culprit could be a plugin in the control room? So you’d hear it in action while listening to the Cubase project. But it wouldn’t be in the mixdown.

I took care to turn all CR plugs off for sure

@Nico5

Another potential culprit could be that the mixed/exported file is being played via a different hardware /software chain than the Cubase audio chain.

I have reimported it and playback is from audio track…so its a pretty simple comparison ie time aligned and AB as blind test…I can pick it every time.

Just a bit weird…just feels a bit veiled and less transparent with the verb so its really low level signal but I havent dithered…24bit should not be noticeable.