Bounce To Stereo Track Sounds Way Diffrerent Than Previous Mix

I hope I have the terms correct but I've been working on a project and wanted to listen to it on my home stereo so I Cntrl 'A' to select all tracks and then click 'bounce to track' and choose stereo and 'What You Hear' in the preset menu, which seem to simply select every option, and then bounce to track

The resulting stereo wav is very much different than what I heard previously. Much louder, very bass heavy, none of the levels seem correct at all. I've tried it a couple of times but same result. I've got Audio and MIDI and envelopes and soft synths and little bit of everything.

I'm missing something.

Thanks teego but isn't the master bus where a lot of processing can take place? Pro Channel on that bus at least?

after you do the bounce if you play back thru the same buss with the effects still enabled it is applying them again.

 
Right, but rather than disable FX on the Master bus, just route the output of the "Master Bounce" track direct to Main Outs of the audio interface, bypassing the Master, and solo it.
 
Or you can invert the phase of the bounced track and verify that it nulls with the live mix on the Master bus. If it doesn't, you probably have FX or synths that have random or non-phase-locked elements that make every playback slightly different. Dithering can also cause the bounced track not to null perfectly, but the difference signal should be very low level.

Wow you guys - VERY helpful So appreciate it. And you were exactly right teego, I was playing the bounced track back through the Master bus. I sent it directly to the sound card (Thanks Brundelfly) and it was great.

I'll invert the phase and check as you suggest.

Thanks again.

Mike do you save different versions of the CWP file, in case you want to go back to an earlier mix that you like, but want to build on it etc?

p.s. that Chord Gadget in your signature is really useful - thanks for that.

Good tips Mike - thanks. I guess the actual project files are (relatively) small, so there's not a lot of overhead in creating lots of generational versions, and all of the audio files are used in common anyway.