Your going to get artifacts at lower bit rates. That's just how it works. I always export at 44.1/16 regardless of higher sample rate bit depth of sonar project at 192 kHz mp3. Those settings should sound good. 128 you will hear artifacting or what ever you want to call it. 192 should be fine. 

Also, I believe sonar will fail making the mp3 if you don't choose 44.1/16 for export for mp3. 

isn't japanese "harder"?
i would guess taiwanese, chinese or something

Guitarpima


Judging by the name it's Japanese. Nice melody.

The same thoughts as ProjectM. Also, sometimes different effect can cause problems. Maybe there is nothing wrong with the effects but sometimes they can become a problem. It's rare but there have been times that I've had to reload effects.

Or it could be Vietnamese....


Come on Stan, what language is it?

128kb/s mp3s have always been borderline for good or bad. However, it should be possible to export or convert to a 128kb/s without too many artifacts. What exactly is your export options when you do the conversion? And if you export directly to mp3 from the project, du you get the same noise?

it sounds as if the bit rate is too low. I would try a higher bit rate. 

I can export an MP3 with 128 bitrate and have no artifacts. So it pretty clear that your MP3 converter is pretty 'lame', no pun intended :)

As said before, 320 is the closest you can get to a 16bit, 44.1khz wave file in sound quality and htis is what i export to. A few KB/s's is nothing to worry about. If your worry about a few kb/s, then its time to purchase a hard drive. 


CJ

mixing down to cd mp3 41000 16 bit

MP3s are data files not audio files so they don't use sample rate or bit depth. They use bit rate. 128 bps is the minimum for barely CD quality, 192 is better, 256 and 320 are even better, but the more bits per second, the bigger the file. 

ProjectM


Or it could be Vietnamese....


Come on Stan, what language is it?

128kb/s mp3s have always been borderline for good or bad. However, it should be possible to export or convert to a 128kb/s without too many artifacts. What exactly is your export options when you do the conversion? And if you export directly to mp3 from the project, du you get the same noise?

It is Vietnamese or at least that's what I found out by Googling it.

CJaysMusic


I can export an MP3 with 128 bitrate and have no artifacts. So it pretty clear that your MP3 converter is pretty 'lame', no pun intended :)

As said before, 320 is the closest you can get to a 16bit, 44.1khz wave file in sound quality and htis is what i export to. A few KB/s's is nothing to worry about. If your worry about a few kb/s, then its time to purchase a hard drive. 


CJ

If you can export a 128 kHz mp3 with no artifacts using some superior codec then why even bother making 320 kHz mp3s when the only point of mp3s is to reduce file size? Don't keep this codec a secret. What is it?

I made this one Sonar X2 with Focusrite 2i2 interface, Presonus Tubepre preamp. This song is in Vietnamese ! Just don't care about the language. please help me listening and comment about the sound quality overall, specially vocals. 


From the song forum,,, funny he never replied there either. 


What CJ said about mastering at 0Db then converting,, there was a huge discussion about this and it's true. The MP3 needs a little more head room,,, mind you a zzzz sounds more like a fly in the studio to me. 

i couldn't listen to the  audio files so i don't know what's the problem
but however i try to help.
before exporting an audio file stop the engine and start again and wait a min
then try exporting again.
if the kbs are too low the audio might loose some frequencies.
and try live audible exporting, not fast conversion.
ok i think you have already tried it out but if not
Try it

ah sorry you have already found a solution for your problem.
next time i will read better.
Good Luck