Urgent export quality on FLAC files

Question

Hi, I am making a mix for my friend using FLAC files that sound perfect in my file explorer - we finished the mix and exported it and the quality was.... well terrible.

At first I thought it was because we messed with stretching and levels so to test this out I used a plain FLAC of a song I know well into audition completely unedited and without any input from me audition COMPLETELY flattened the song, seeming converting it to mono and removing an extremely noticeable quality when listening on headphones. It muddies the song and completely disregards its use of left and right channels despite me doing nothing but load it onto 24-track mixdown.

Can someone please tell me how to undo this? Is there a hidden setting I'm missing or will Audition natively crunch music down to be flatter and less nuanced?

SteveG_AudioMasters_ · Answer

Audition doesn't do anything nasty to audio files at all - unless you set it to. In this instance, if you do a Save As, set it to FLAC and look at the format settings, what are they? To get the best out of FLAC, you need them set like this:

I would expect to hear what you are talking about if you saved as an 8-bit PCM file, but a 16 or a 24-bit one should be fine.

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