
The LAME encoder is generally thought to be the best mp3 encoder (although the Fraunhofer encoder is faster, but when set to similar quality/processing settings, I suspect they're about the same in quality [for the record, I licensed the Fraunhofer encoder in the 90s but stopped using it when I moved to the open source LAME codec). (An alternate theory is that gainstaging in Reaper is different than you are used to and you're compromising your sonics somehow there, but kind of doubt this as floating point DAWs tend to be fairly forgiving as long as the signal reaching DAC - or the reconstruction filters used for creating the mixdown data stream sent to file - isn't too high or too low.) Like others, I'm thinking this is likely to be a setting problem and that your process is a bit roundabout. Is that accurate? Its so frustrating to have this hurdle stopping me from moving forward, any advice would be greatly appreciated. My concern is that when I go to burn it to a CD for the mixtape, that eventually it will have to go to mp3 anyways. Ill have to export as WAV and see if the problem is still there. Im hoping you guys can shine some light and help me keep my sound quality as close as possible. I attempted to use Foobar and render the projects as FLACs and convert them to mp3 though foobar, but Im having issues with the LAME encoder there, it keeps telling me that theres an error. Im recording 24 bit 44.1 samplerate and exporting the same. In my case the vocals come out sounding more telephonic in the mid range and of course its not as loud. I searched around, and it seems that a lot of people have this same problem, mixes coming out sounding different, certain instruments sounding strange, phasy. Im fairly certain that the songs are getting jacked up through the rendering process after trying to troubleshoot why the mixes sounded bad. My tracking/mixing room is treated and I used Equator D5 Monitors(pair). I know that this format isnt known for quality, but Ive never had this problem at all with the last program.
#Reaper mp3 encoder 64 Bit
That program isnt compatible with 64 bit OS's so I decided to take on Reaper. I used to use Magix Music Studio 12 Deluxe a while back and never had that problem before. I spend a lot of time recording and mixing the songs carefully, only to have the sound quality derailed when exporting/rendering them out of Reaper.

Im having a terrible time with exporting/rendering and the sound quality of my songs.
#Reaper mp3 encoder windows 7
I use Reaper through Windows 7 64bit, my computer is an HP Pavilion Slimline Desktop. though there is Mac and Linux versions of REAPER on the way if they haven't already been released.) then just render directly to MP3 from Reaper.I figured this was the best forum to post this in.

Get Reaper, put the lame_enc.dll file in the Reaper's installation folder (C:\Program Files\REAPER\ is where mine installed to. why would you want to? That's what the MP3 encoding does.
#Reaper mp3 encoder license
a lot of professionals use it (though they also buy the commercial license since they are making money out of it).

Not sure why you are using Audacity for recording when you can get a full-featured DAW for free. You need to make it so you're making at least 128kbps (if not 192kbps or higher) bitrate and 48KHz sample rate, and on hi-res/hi-fidelity settings.

Lame_enc.dll (or LAME Encoder) is the one I use.
