mp3 conversion not working. :(

I know drivel gets moved down here from upstairs.  I'm curious to know if a real musical question will get moved elsewhere.  And if so, if I'll be able to find it. 
 
Anyway, I've been reworking an old song and decided to upload it tonight.  It sounds fine on my DAW, but when I upload it to SC or import it into Audacity I get this bad humming.  I'm exporting at 16 bit, 44100, using the LAME mp3 encoder in Sonar, just like I've done for the last 40 songs or so.  What could be wrong?  Here it is: 
 
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/page_songInfo.cfm?bandID=789731&songID=6851391

Yeah, resonating...something.  It's definitely not there in my mix.  Did you listen with headphones or something?  It's pretty obvious.  :( 

OK, but why does it sound fine on in Sonar?  And why is this happening now all of a sudden?  And what can I do about it? 

Thanks, Michael.  I'll try that. 

Thanks, Reece.  I may do that.  I'm working on it now.  I should have said before, it also sounds just fine in WMP.  Just not in SC or Audacity. 

WMA lossless? 

from sonar FILE>EXPORT and WMA is one of the options you can choose.

I'm with Michael on this - and I was basically saying the same thing - the bass is too hot.  probably because of the way dimpro is handling that particular sample.

Janet I have to back up on the my statement "not a conversion issue" as I use Sony Vegas for that, not Sonar.
If it is the converter in Sonar and it works like Sony it may have default effects applied such as compressor.
I have to change that in Sony when I convert to MP3's.
Whatever it is you're hearing it doesn't buzz my equipment. All the lows are clean but very heavy.

well, it (the bass) sounds pretty much the same as the one you sent me the other day.  it's the same hot resonating I was hearing then.

instead of looking at EQ, just look at your levels on your DimPro, the input, the output, the levels on the track, do you have a compressor on the bass?  check that.  also, some sampled sounds cause problems when you go over a certain velocity depending on the sampler, the samples, etc.

I would try exporting it as a wav with no dithering. Then convert it with an external program and see if you get the same results.

I would make it a high quality 320 mp3. Reason being, when you upload songs to Soundclick, they convert them to 128. 320 is as close to wav quality as you can get for an mp3.

Firefox looks better imo on newer widescreen monitors. You hold ctrl and the plus or minus key to zoom in and out. Much better than the fixed sizes in IE.

I can't even get the forums to load when I use IE, that's why I switched.

Greg, yeah, I thought of that.  I may just change it to a cello.  I KNOW I can get that to work.  (in under an hour, hopefully changing the midi, etc.)  But darn it, I hope it doesn't ruin my options of using bass in my pieces.  :( 

Bub, I think I tried that, too. 

When I have so little time to record, it frustrates the heck out of me when things like this waste my time. 

OK rant over.  I'll get back to work on it when I can.

Listen this morning on my mail PC on pair of Tanoy concentric speakers could hear something but was not sure.  Just listened again in the studio and there is some definite resonance that sound a little like a bow drawn slowly over a string.

I would suggest that there may be some inter-modulation occurring that may be being amplified by the encoding process.  You mentioned that you have EQ'd the bass out what exactly do you mean.

It sounds like the bass could do with a low pass filter to tame some of the top end and possibly a narrow notch cut where it tends to obscure the pianos bass part

Not that I would know but....

Nice tune nicely played.

John, I'm not sure what I meant.  Probably a typo or something.  lol  I'm not sure of everything you mean, either, but I'll go back in and work on it.  Thanks. :-)

Rik, how do I do that? 

Hi Janet, in console-view click on the circle with a slash through it, that changes the phase of that track. You don't hear a difference to the bass track while you listen to it on its own, but it may help if there are frequencies that are exactly in phase on the bass and the piano track and therefore amplifying each other, putting one track out of phase with the other one reduces that.

Greetings, Rik

I don't Herb.  And I've used this same one on a couple other songs and everyone said it sounded great. I'm beginning to think everyone may be stretching the truth a little bit here and there with my stuff though.  lol

Thanks again, Reece and Rik.  I've never noticed, or obviously used, that before.  I just tried it, and turned the bass track down some and it works fine.  Well, actually, I hear a little buzz on SC that I don't hear when I play it in WMP on my DAW.  I may just have to live with that.  :(  

Thanks everyone.  Without you guys I never would have finished my first song 3 years ago, believe me!!