Tweeters breaking up with no overs???

 
 I am having a problem with some piano recordings I'm making. I have noticed that my tweets seem to break up in certain places on my songs,even when there is no clipping happening . I have tried to EQ some of this out, but when I notch out the more agressive peaks, the song seems to loose its punch.
 
  I made a few CD copies to play in the car,and when playing the song in the car the problem is so small that I need to strain to hear it...If I play the song after a conversion into soundcloud the problem almost disappears there too(most people probably would never hear it).
 
 My monitors are M-audio Bx8as and I have their amps on at full. Should I reduce that setting?My vsti isn't overdriven either. Any thoughts or ideas on what it might be?
 
 Here is a link to a recent Christmas song I recorded that shows the problem-
 
http://soundcloud.com/starise/oh-come-oh-come-emmanuel
 
 
 
 

Perhaps the speakers them selves have a resonance problem that you are simply revealing?

In any event I'd try to find the frequency band that is doing it and back off a bit.

Maybe try some multi band compression to isolate just the bad part.

Maybe pull back the offending range with an EQ and boost a bit of lower mid for that "punch"?

Maybe look to see if the problem is being exasperated by your reverb? Maybe the resonance is being aggravated there and can be pulled back without effecting the direct sound or punch?


Good luck.

best regards,
mike

Danny D commented on the song I recently posted that Sound Cloud had it sounding weird....a repost to Soundclick fixed the issue. 

So it could also be related to the compression they use... 

Is that a real piano you're micing? Sounds real, except for the lack of action/pedal noises...? If so, I would have to think the mics or pres were being over-modulated/over-driven, and the noise was is in the analog signal before it ever got into your DAW.

If it's a synth, especially a hardware digital piano being recorded from analog outputs, I would be looking at the output level of the synth being too high. And I'd want to know what synth that is, because it sounds great, otherwise. 

 Thanks guys, I started probing around further and tried a recording of another song using my Motif rack. In that case there were no breakups of any kind using the same levels I had previously used with the VSTi. That points directly to the VSTi being the culprit.

 The VSTi is Pianissimo. I have the volume at halfway but I didn't adjust the velocity to any large degree. I believe doing that has helped. I adjusted the velocity in Sonar on the midi channel strip but had not adjusted it on the VSTi adjustment. Brundlefly, its funny you mention pedal noises because Pianissimo has pedal noises but I turned them off.

 You guys helped me to look in the right place...thanks!
 
 I'm posting the improved track here- http://soundcloud.com/sta...ome-oh-come-emmanuel-1

VSTi is Pianissimo

I'm kind of embarassed that I couldn't immediately tell for certain that it was a sampled piano, and not a very expensive one at that. So much for my Golden Ears reputation. 

Glad you got the issue figured out in any case.