You don't worry about the meters only registering on the bottom two steps - that's correct! You leave the fader at that point (it should actually be 0dB, but there's no guarantee) and then use the gain control to set the recording level for the aforementioned -12dB peak level. And then check that Audition also reads 0dB when you record. With a tone generator it's much easier to set the levels correctly - you just feed a tone level into one of the channels and set the master fader so that the output meters read 0dB. And this is almost certainly why you still appear to have clipping, even though the signal is below 0dB - it's early stage overload. The chances are though that if you leave the fader set to 0dB, and adjust the gain control so that the mixer's meters read -12dB on peaks, that you'll get the same peak levels in Audition, and that's actually what you want - not the mixer's meters hitting 0dB. To be fair, this isn't explained properly in the mixer's guide book, and there isn't a simple way to set this accurately without a tone generator - which this mixer doesn't have. Getting this right is called 'gain staging' and it's important to do this in the correct order. If, for instance, you set the output fader too low and try to compensate by turning up the gain control, then you get early-stage clipping, but the levels seem correct. It is also possible to set levels inappropriately, especially if you are using a mixer. Now it may well be that you need to do other processes before this, like compression and limiting to optimise your voice levels and if you do this, you may find that you need to normalize more than once, but the principle is the same - you don't have any part of your recording clipping at any stage. This is available as a function in Audition. The correct procedure is to make your initial recording so that the peaks are around -12dB, and then do a process called 'Normalizing', which can accurately determine where the highest peak in your recording is, and set that point to about -1dB. If you don't do this then you've overloaded the system, and the distortion is inevitable. This is called 'headroom', and it's what all pro engineers do when they record. The norm for recording on digital equipment is to have the highest peaks at somewhere between -12 and -15dB - just to allow for any peaks you weren't expecting not to clip. And those are the lines you can see in the spectral display extending up to ridiculous values. ![]() When the signal gets to 0dB the waveform tries to take an abrupt right turn, which it can't do - what this looks like is a bit of a square wave - and those contain harmonics that in theory extend to infinity. When you record your voice (or anything else, come to that) you don't record up to 0dB, because what you have above is exactly what you get if you do - clipping. ![]() There are several things to say about this. If it is possible I'd love to hear your thoughts on that - Is it me, my voice or my gear? or am I doing something wrong? I am just beginning and putting my first steps here so I just thought that this may be interesting for you. Now I got pretty confused about this and tried to record a new audio file in 192 000 hz - and it shows clearly that my voice reaches there about 55khz tops, but here it does not seem to distort it the same way as if I would record in 96 000 sample rate. I am quite confused about this, because whenever I reach these over 45khz (recording in 96 000 sample rate) the sound is slightly distorted - and It is like this regardles of the gain level (unless it is quiet quiet) - which means - It reaches this distortion at -2db and at -8 db as well. I have shure sm 58 which was the mic of my choice and Zedi 8 audio interface. I need to siginifantly reduce the microphone gain to low signal to not have this issue. I found that sometimes my voice shows over 45khz on Spectral Frequency Display in Adobe Audition. ![]() ![]() I need to record my voice overs, and spend already considerate amount of time studying how to do it properly, and just now, when I thougth I am almost ready to record.
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